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If your child sleeps like this at night, read what follows before paying the orthodontist. This image, I took the exact same one of my son a few months ago. Mouth open. Head sideways. Noisy breathing. I thought it was cute. I told myself it would pass. Until a specialist explained to me what really happens when a child breathes through their mouth while sleeping for years. Between ages 3 and 9, the face, the jaw, and the airways are still in full development. When a child sleeps on a pillow that's too soft or too low, their neck breaks, their chin tips back, and their airways partly close. So they open their mouth to breathe. Night after night, this habit sets in. The tongue no longer rests against the palate. The jaw develops poorly. The face begins to elongate. It's what's called an adenoid face. And it's exactly what expanders, orthodontics, and in extreme cases jaw surgery try to correct years later. Thousands of dollars, years of treatment, to straighten what was built crooked during sleep. The most unfair part is that no one had ever told me about the one thing that repeats ten hours a night while everything is forming: what they rest their head on. That evening, I gave my son a pillow designed for a child's build. A 3-zone ergonomic structure: a central hollow that holds the head, two side supports that keep the neck at the right height, a firmness that stops the head from sinking. The right height to keep the neck straight. The memory foam is CertiPUR-certified. Around the first week, the snoring eased. Around two weeks, he kept his mouth closed longer. Around three weeks, the jaw already seemed to be moving back into place. After a month, he was breathing through his nose all night, lips closed, without us having to tell him. Marine, a friend I'd told about it, wrote to me after a week: in one week, her son was already sleeping differently. The pillow is the Cocoona children's posture pillow. It's designed for children between 3 and 9. Tonight, watch your child sleep. Mouth open, or closed? Myself, I'd rather deal with this now, while the window is open, than wait five years and pay the orthodontic practice. Here's where I found it, I'm sharing it for those interested.