Dummies are likely to interfere with parents’ ability to interpret and respond to a baby’s happiness or distress, according to a study. Women looking at images of smiling babies with dummies rated the ...

Whether you call them dummies, pacifiers, soothers or binkies, the artificial teats are said to cause a child's teeth to be misaligned, disrupt breastfeeding and impede speech development. Parents who ...

A dummy may seem like an ideal way to soothe a crying baby, but a new study suggests this could stunt their emotional development. Infants learn how to interact largely through mimicry and researchers ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To use or not to use a dummy – it’s a question endlessly debated on parenting blogs and baby forums. Some believe they should never be ...

Dummies, pacifiers, soothers - whatever you call them they all do the same job and they all split parents’ opinions. Some mums and dads never give their baby a dummy, while some swear by them to help ...

Use of a dummy seems to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Researchers in California interviewed mothers or carers of 185 infants ...

LONDON (Daily Mail) -- Dummies stop babies from breastfeeding and are bad for their health, experts have warned. A series of studies from around the world have shown that babies given dummies to ...

A new trend in China involving adult pacifiers has sparked concerns among the medical community. Reportedly, an increasing number of adults are using this dummy item, claiming that it helps reduce ...