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: ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Premature babies face a lot of challenges, from breathing properly to growing. But you might be surprised to hear that they also need to learn how to eat. As CBS 2's Dr. Max ...

Mothers sing lullabies through specially equipped pacifiers Premature babies were rewarded with lullaby when they suckled correctly Feeding tubes were removed a week earlier for preemies with singing ...

Many parents feel that pacis, binkies, dummies — or whatever your preferred word for pacifiers happens to be — are something of a lifesaver. Along with helping babies self-soothe, they can also act as ...

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 ...