Not long after I became a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), I began to notice something disconcerting: The infants in my care, like all babies, cried when they were tired, scared or in ...

Doctors at Vanderbilt University have found that tweaking the traditional pacifier to play a mother’s voice can provided added benefits to premature babies. Preemies that were given a special pacifier ...

Infants born at full term are able to feed themselves thanks to their instinctive sucking reflex and the fully developed muscles needed to extract milk from their mothers. But every year in the U.S., ...

Babies who are born prematurely often don’t have the ability to make the sucking motions needed to get milk from mom or bottles. So researchers designed an electronic pacifier to help them make the ...

Most people these days either have or are familiar with smartphones and smartwatches. But what about a smart pacifier? Some doctors and an engineer at UAB are part of the team developing that ...

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 ...

Harriet Miller, CPN, a nurse scientist at the Center for Nursing Research at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies at Orlando Health, contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: ...