Keep pacifiers clean by washing them in a water-and-baking soda solution. Stay up-to-date on pacifier recalls and reports, and make your own if you notice a problem.

Pacifiers may spark debate among parents, but a new poll shows they remain a go-to tool for helping young children self-soothe.

Epoch Everlasting Play said it is recalling 3.2 million of its popular Calico Critters toys following three incidents involving a bottle and pacifier accessory, including the deaths of two ...

One of the "twins" is crying while the other sucks on a pacifier. As for their mom? She's strapped to a familiar Medela pump, with the bottles half-filled, not with breast milk but with pumpkin seeds.

Bats get a bad rap. Though they're most frequently associated with Halloween-type spookiness, the little guys can actually be pretty cute!

Parents know how pacifiers can calm crying, distressed babies. Now a Florida nurse has created a pacifier for preemies who need breathing tubes.

Engineering professors and their students at Washington State University Vancouver have helped develop a high-tech pacifier that can monitor the health of babies.