Abigail Moen, 9, didn't know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. "I was sad," the fourth-grader from Eastchester, New York, told CNN.

Abigail Moen, 9, didn’t know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. “I was sad,” the fourth-grader from Eastchester, New York ...

"Her cleft palate is quite big, but she was able to eat from a bottle in the beginning (as opposed to tube feeding) every three to four hours, and she's now eating regular soft food a few times a day.

Aiden’s father and his older sister, Taylor, were born with a cleft palate, a deformity that occurs when the roof of the mouth doesn’t close completely as an infant is developing in the womb. Newborns ...

(CNN) — Abigail Moen, 9, didn’t know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. “I was sad,” the fourth-grader from Eastchester ...