A self-proclaimed "Gen Z mother" from Malaysia has come under fire for her potentially dangerous method to keep her babies ...

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 ...

A Pennsylvania father who is accused of taping a pacifier to his baby's mouth for hours while he was drunk was acknowledged saving a woman's life two years prior. Jordan Hirst, 22, of South Greensburg ...

For years, health officials have told parents not to share utensils with their babies or clean their pacifiers by putting them in their mouths, arguing that the practice spreads harmful germs between ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAKE STEVENS — The mother of a 4-month-old boy found dead Monday told police she had taped a pacifier to the baby’s mouth before putting the child down to sleep. The mother said she woke up at around ...

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 ...