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Breastfeeding Abstracts, February 1999. Volume 18, Number 3, Pages 19-20

Author: Brian Palmer, D.D.S., Kansas City, Missouri

How is OSA related to breastfeeding? Breastfeeding is important to the proper development of the swallowing action of the tongue, proper alignment of the teeth, and the shaping of the hard palate.(4-5) Bottle-feeding, pacifier use, and infant habits such as excessive thumb-sucking, arm-sucking, etc., can cause tongue thrusts and malocclusions. Occlusion and a high palate impact the flow of air through the airway and thus may contribute to OSA.

debtheveg wrote: Just curious to think there may be a relationship bottlefeeding and changing the internal shape of the mouth.

Deb

kopoloff wrote: ........ nearly all cancers can be cured by reverting to our lifestyle of 3,000 years ago - don't live so long

k

dsm wrote:..........Many years ago when 1st married, we lived next door to a lady who said she had fed breast fed her son up to the age of 6 & only stopped when he would come up in front of guests & insist on a drink. The story sounds tall but we had no reason to disbelieve the lady telling us. The period this would have been happening with her would have been mid to late 1940s.

DSM

rooster wrote:...........It has nothing to do with sleep apnea but here are two breastfeeding stories my mother told me.

1. Mom knew a lady, Addie, who breastfed the kids until they were four years old. Mind you they also started eating solid food which she supplemented with breastmilk. Grandma had a Sunday afternoon party at our farmhouse one spring day when my mom was a teenager. The kids played in the yard and the adults also wandered outside for awhile. After the party a shocked guest told mom she had seen Addie behind some bushes bending forward with her large bare breasts exposed and hanging down. The nearly four-year old son was standing on his tiptoes partaking of a midafternoon snack. My mother is a very tolerant and loving person but she loved to whisper this story throughout her life.

2. Mom went to a tea party and a young lady began breastfeeding her infant on the sofa in front of the whole group. Mom's friend, Susan, was sitting beside the mother on the sofa. Susan said, "Oh, the baby has a hair in her mouth". Susan then attempted to pull the hair from the baby's mouth. The mother yelped, "Ouch!" Needless to say Susan was mortally embarrassed and the story has lived at least fifty years.

JerseyRose wrote:...........(at a sleep lab with a helicopter pad next door - go figure).

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