James Nestor

You know, my mom had three kids.

She's like, this was not something you were doing in the 70s.

And I was bottle fed and then on to Gerber's soft, soft food.

This is not the way to do it.

It doesn't need to be the perfect hard food because all populations everywhere eating different diets had straight teeth.

and had large mouths.

So what we used to do is kids were breastfed for two to four, in some cultures, even six to eight years.

And when you are breastfed as an infant, it pulls your face outward, okay?

And it expands your palate.

This is what it does.

And I promised myself not to talk about this anymore,

Because whenever a man is telling mothers about breastfeeding, I've gotten a bunch of angry letters.

What I'm telling you and all the listeners out here is I'm conveying information, okay?

I'm not making judgments on anybody.

I know how hard it is to be a modern mother.

I'm just telling you what I have learned from the experts in the field.

They said, when you are breastfed for that long, exclusively, it pulls the face out.

If you think about the pressure and the coordination required for breastfeeding, not only is it opening up that palate and making for a larger mouth, but it is training these infants to be obligate nasal breathers because they're breastfeeding for three, four hours a day.

The only way you can feed and breathe.

is through your nose.