Can Bottle Feeding Increase the Risk of Sleep Apnea?

Startling News For Parents of Bottle Fed Children… In this hour long interview, Dr. Park talks to Dr. Brian Palmer, a former dentist who has done extensive research in the field of infant oral cavity and airway development.  In this discussion, Dr. Palmer shares shocking information as to why parents who bottle feed their children […]

Longer Breastfeeding Tied to Better Development

There’s no doubt about the benefits of breastfeeding, but most of the benefits that are written about in medical journals is related to the nutritional and immunologic benefits of human breast milk. Here’s one more of many articles touting the developmental benefits of breastfeeding over bottle-feeding. Most of the studies compare breast milk (including pumped […]

Breast-feeding Linked to Social Status

Here’s an interesting study showing that being breast-fed as an infant was associated with a higher social status later in life. While the article gives some very good plausible reasons for this finding, nowhere does it mention the well-known finding by dentists that bottle-feeding can aggravate dental crowding, which can potentially lead to problems breathing […]

The Benefits of Breastfeeding on Breathing

The American Academy of Pediatrics just published a policy statement reiterating their recommendation that infants should be breastfed exclusively for 6 months. They also made this recommendation in their 2005 paper, but this time they actually quantify the health benefits.  The authors wrote that others have suggested that more than 900 infant deaths per year […]

How Breast Feeding Improves Children’s Behavior

There are numerous studies on the health benefits of breast feeding, and here’s another one that supports my sleep-breathing paradigm, that your overall state of health is directly proportional to how well formed your jaws are as you age (and subsequently your breathing passageways). Researchers from Oxford University in the UK found that infants who […]