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Alternative methods of infant feeding when breastfeeding is not possible
Published in Maria Pollard, Evidence-based Care for Breastfeeding Mothers, 2018
A Haberman feeder is a special bottle developed for infants with impaired sucking ability (for example, cleft lip and palate). It is designed to mimic breastfeeding as opposed to sucking on a traditional artificial teat and bottle.
Orofacial clefts alter early life oral microbiome maturation towards higher levels of potentially pathogenic species: A prospective observational study
Published in Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2023
Corinna L. Seidel, Karin Strobel, Matthias Weider, Marco Tschaftari, Christoph Unertl, Ines Willershausen, Manuel Weber, André Hoerning, Patrick Morhart, Michael Schneider, Matthias W. Beckmann, Christian Bogdan, Roman G. Gerlach, Lina Gölz
Cleft lip and palate (CLP) are the second most common human malformation and show a varying prevalence of approximately 1:700 for cleft lip palate and 1:1,200 for cleft palate only depending on ethnic group, cleft type/side and gender [1]. They present different phenotypes, e.g. bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate (BCLP), unilateral cleft lip and cleft palate (UCLP), Cleft palate only (CPo) and Cleft lip only (CLo) [2]. Orofacial clefts are the result of impaired maxillofacial development processes between the 7th and 12th embryonic week [3]. Due to the variety of cleft types and severities, several classification schemes have been evolved [2,4], e.g. the LAHSHAL classification scheme by Kriens et al [5], which is the second-most common and recommended classification scheme due to its adequateness and extensiveness [4]. Depending on cleft severity, neonates with OFC require surgical lip and/or surgical palate closure [6,7] as well as presurgical infant orthopedics (PSIO) with palate plates [8], which aim to control growth, ensure feeding and normalize function [7,9]. Despite PSIO treatment, feeding difficulties [10,11] can still occur in neonates with OFC requiring nutrition interventions like Haberman feeder [12,13].