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

!'Janie Ford, 34, mum to Harriet, 21 months.5 Ways girls develop differently to boys1. At birth, girl babies are already four to six weeks ahead of boys in terms of development.2. Female skin is significantly thinner than male skin, this means they seem to like

an enormous strain on parents and their children.‘Weaning from 12 to 18 months is ideal, because dummies can cause real problems with older children. They can push the palate of the mouth upwards, forcing the teeth out of line. Speech and language therapists