Baby Born With Soft Cleft Palate

A cleft palate can range from just an opening at the back of the soft palate to a nearly complete separation of the roof of the mouth soft and hard palate.

Baby born with soft cleft palate.

Clefting results when there is not enough tissue in. Sometimes infants are born with a cleft lip and palate i e cleft lip palate. Babies with more severe clefts are not able to breastfeed. Cleft lip and palate are some of the most common birth conditions that affect a baby s mouth and face.

But in babies with cleft lip and cleft palate the fusion never takes place or occurs only part way leaving an opening cleft. Sometimes a baby with a cleft palate may have a small chin and a few babies with this combination may have difficulties with breathing easily. 1 causes and risk factors the causes of orofacial clefts among most infants are unknown. Cleft lip and cleft palate occur when tissues in the baby s face and mouth don t fuse properly.

Although most babies with cleft palate can t breastfeed some babies with a small or narrow cleft of only the soft palate may be able to breastfeed. Infants with this type of cleft normally have extensive feeding difficulties and are often unable to breast feed successfully. E very year in the us over 2 600 babies are born with a cleft palate and over 4 400 with a cleft lip. Normally the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy.

Cleft lip and cleft palate are facial and oral malformations that occur very early in pregnancy while the baby is developing inside the mother. Typically clefts are isolated occurring without any other defects. About 1 in every 1 700 babies is born with cleft palate in the united states. About 1 in every 2 800 babies is born with cleft lip without cleft palate in the united states.

This type of cleft extends from the lip to the hard or soft palate.