"Other hospitals in Texas are taking similar steps to become more baby-friendly, including closing nurseries and phasing out pacifiers, according to North Texas' CBSDFW.

Pacifiers "interfere in the beginning with breastfeeding sometimes," Theresa Patton, M.D., of the 515-bed Methodist Dallas Medical Center told CBSDFW. "Pacifiers are gone from general use. They are used for painful procedures, so if an infant has a circumcision or something like that we use pacifiers periodically for that reason." Methodist also emphasizes skin-to-skin contact and requires rooming-in."