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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...