we want really pacifier and thumb-sucking from a speech pathologist's perspective i'd like them to

discontinue that or replace that behavior or something else around four to six months old

that's usually the time they're just getting really hooked on braces apply about two grams

of force to move teeth if you thumb suck that'll provide about 100 to 200 grams of force to move your

teeth. That's like so many kids with thumbs up have their teeth pulled out. So that's like 10 times more

than just what you need for braces. Your tongue, though, is so strong. It provides about 500 grams of force.

So when someone has a newborn baby, what is it they should look out for?

Or are there any exercises or things they should be doing to help that development?

Open mouth breathing is a red flag of some kind of airway dysfunction.

And then any adult who snores should be getting myo-functional

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Hi, I'm Jeannie Nelson, and I am a speech language pathologist and I own a company called Breathe Eat, Sleep, Talk.

And that is what I help with.

So it's not just speech like you think about it with helping kids with their pronunciations of sounds,

but it's actually airway development through the lifespan that I like to focus on and help.

A lot of this, especially with babies and infants, is airway development and preventative things we can do because there are a lot of things in our world and development that are impacting the way our jaws and airways are functioning and developing.

So when most people hear airways, they are thinking, ho-hum, this is not important.

This is something that everybody has.

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