Babies often enjoy the comfort of a dummy, but you need to make sure they kick the habit once they reach the age of 12 months. Here's why: Repeated dummy sucking opens the eustachian tubes, which link the nose and middle ear, allowing bacteria

identical to the AAP's. All found that infants who had used a dummy were significantly less likely to fall victim to cot death. We don't know why dummies have these protective benefits, but they do, and experts have the research to back it up.Q At what age

Soma Boodram trains health visitors and is a practising health visitor herself. She's been working with children for 25 years and is a mum of two. ‘Dummies are given to children by their parents as comforters, and they form a strong emotional

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) has announced is its latest safe sleeping message for parents. They are advising parents to settle their baby to sleep with a dummy - even for naps - to help reduce the risk of cot death.FSID says

Sleepytots are rabbits that are very, very soft and have long silky ears which baby loves to stroke. He is just the right size for a "baby hug" and has strong velcro on his hands and feet where you attach up to 4 dummies enabling baby to grab

Dr Sarah Jarvis (author of Pregnancy for Dummies) says:This is not a cause for alarm. There is no evidence that becoming pregnant while on the Pill does the foetus any harm. The hormones in the Pill are similar to the ones your body is going

your baby to self soothe, such as gradual withdrawal, pick up, push down or shush pat. Find a sleep solution you’re happy with, research it, follow it through and it’ll work.”Q: I have to keep replacing my 5-month-old’s dummy when it falls out until he

Daymond, author of The Parentalk Guide To Sleep (Hodder & Stoughton, £5.99), offers some advice.A common problem is when your baby will only fall asleep while you're nearby, holding him or while sucking on a dummy, bottle or breast. This is fine in the day

wakes up any time after 5am, happy and squealing and ready to start his day. If he wakes earlier he's easily settled with a dummy, or even a bottle if he's having a growth spurt. But the 5am wake up is different, I try and settle him the same way I would

and shape to carry all of the essentials that you could need for a day out with your little one. The two external side pockets are easily accessible and are an ideal size for carrying things like keys, dummies, lip gloss and mobile phones. The inside