July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

“My baby is going to be born with a cleft lip. We’re not 100 percent sure, and we probably won’t know 100 percent until he’s born, whether he has the palate,” Hanratty said in the new ...

Commonly observed symptoms are fluids coming out of the nose, difficulty in swallowing and speech. A prenatal ultrasound test can determine the cleft in an unborn child. If not, a cleft palate is ...