About half of children have used a pacifier; strategies to reduce pacifier use or thumb-sucking range from hiding pacis to using deterrents like hot sauce Pacifiers and thumb-sucking can help soothe ...

With a new baby, a pacifier can work wonders — quieting tears and calming him down quickly. But now that your little one is walking and talking, you may start to wonder whether it's time to ditch the ...

After the 5-year-old daughter of an "A list" celebrity couple was photographed by the paparazzi as she calmly sucked a pacifier, I was asked "How old is too old?" After the 5-year-old daughter of an ...

Experts say that using a pacifier may help reduce your baby’s risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). But that doesn’t mean those binkies are risk-free. In fact, a viral post on Facebook is ...

Alexandra Scherer received funding from The British Academy for the start of this research project on sleep. If you are a parent of a young child, sleep may well have become an obsession for you.