The Cleft Palate and Lip Society of Australia Inc's Annual General Meeting and Speaker's Day will be held in Sydney on July 4th 2009.
For more information, go here.

Hello Friend and welcome to 2009...

You have obviously come to this site in search of information on the most common birth defect in Australia; Cleft lip and/or Cleft palate. Perhaps you are a parent who has recently had your unborn baby diagnosed with this condition, or your baby has been born with a cleft lip and/or palate, or you may even be a family member looking for information and some advice. Whatever brought you to this page, let me say Welcome.

Through this site I hope you come to a better understanding of what a Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate is, how it might affect a baby/child and where you can go to for more information, advice and - maybe most importantly - support.

Please remember as you wander through my site that I'm not a Medical Doctor nor am I an expert. I'm simply a mother who has lived with a gorgeous cleft-affected child for the past thirteen years; stumbling, sometimes a little blindly, through the many appointments and clinics that it all involves without a support group to help me. 

Without a support group in Adelaide when I needed one, I contacted the national support group, CleftPALS, and asked to join their team. 

If you are a new parent or a parent to be, let me say Congratulations!  You have embarked on the most glorious but daunting ride of your life.  Your child will endure a lot in their life, and you will too alongside them, but you are going to love the wide smile, and you are not going to be alone.

I don't know it all, I won't know it all, but I will listen.

This site is still growing so please continue to check this site periodically.

Regards

Leanne

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