< Treatment Timeline It’s fairly common for cleft lip and palate children to develop ear infections, because there are muscles in the ear connected to the palate. Often fluid builds up in the ear which puts pressure on the ear drum until it bursts (this is called glue ear). I can still remember the horror of these ear infections that would swing round every winter in my childhood. I can remember crying on my parents’ bed at about five years old (not even appreciating that I’d