How Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate Babies can Succeed in Self-Feeding with Vikash K. Modi, MD

#148: Can babies with cleft lip or cleft palate safely do baby-led weaning? Pediatric otolaryngologist Dr. Vikash Modi explains how cleft conditions can affect feeding, what changes when your baby starts solid foods, and when self-feeding may still be appropriate. Learn what parents need to know about food textures, open cup drinking, cleft palate repair and helping your baby safely transition to solid foods. Listen to this episode to learn: 1. How cleft lip and cleft palate can affect feeding when your baby starts solid foods 2. What parents need to know about self-feeding and open cup drinking with a cleft palate 3. How feeding may change before and after cleft palate repair Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/148 Links from This Episode: • Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: ⁠⁠https://babyledweaning.co/program⁠⁠ and get $50 off when you sign up using the code BLWPOD50 • Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners⁠ Other Episodes Related to This Topic: • Episode 50 - How Tube Fed Babies Can Become Independent Eaters with Jennifer Berry, MS, OT/L and Heidi Liefer Moreland, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC • Episode 52 - Tongue Ties & Lip Ties: Do These Affect Baby’s Ability to Self-Feed? with Shaina Holman, DDS, PhD • Episode 64 - The Right Way to Use a Pre-Loaded Spoon with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN and save $50 off when you sign up using the code BLWPOD50. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices