Forget boiling, or antiseptic wipes: The best way to clean a Binky may be putting it in your own mouth. A parent who sucks on a baby’s pacifier to clean it is loading it up with hundreds of good types ...

A recent photo of celebrity child Suri Cruise with a pacifier in her mouth at nearly age 5 has caused quite a stir on the Internet. While many professionals, both dentists and pediatricians, concede ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- If your child's pacifier falls on the floor, what should you do? Conventional wisdom has long been to clean the pacifier with soap and water before giving it back. But CBS 2's ...

Binky, paci, bam-bam, soothie, total lifesaver…there are lots of different names for pacifiers and even more varieties to choose from in the drugstore aisle. So how do you know which will soothe your ...

That old-fashioned way of cleaning your baby’s pacifier with your own saliva could transfer germs that actually help boost the infant’s immune system and stave off allergies, according to a recent ...

Pacifiers - they can be parents' go-to when they want to soothe their child or satisfy their child’s suck reflex. Pacifiers come with many advantages but often, a pacifier becomes the object of ...

For many parents, the pacifier was a godsend in helping soothe their infant—especially for those fussy late nights. But prolonged use of the binky may lead to dental problems and orthodontic work, and ...

When the women looked at happy babies with a pacifier or with a white square obscuring their mouth, they showed less activity in their Zygomaticus—the muscle responsible for drawing the mouth into a ...