Health visitor Kerry Bennett has advice for parents around the use of dummies, including possible benefits and risks.

Dummies (also called pacifiers or soothers) are widely used by mums to help soothe babies, encourage them to sleep or stop them crying. There is also some evidence to suggest that using a dummy can ...

Rexann resorted to giving the infant a pacifier. "We sort of hoped she would be a thumbsucker and comfort herself," says Brew, of Pasadena, Calif., who admits she and her husband awoke at least ...

Whether you call them dummies, pacifiers, soothers or binkies, the artificial teats are said to cause a child's teeth to be ...

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