bottle-feed
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I watched doctors in the intensive care unit bottle-feed an injured six-month-old girl whose parents can't be found.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2023
In an email, Mike Ridgway, the child’s father, said he had given Ramirez “space to both nurse and to pump milk for me to bottle-feed our daughter while she is in my care.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
Or bottle-feed a joey on Australia’s Kangaroo Island?
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Domingo-Garcia’s story went viral shortly after ICE raided her poultry plant, when it was reported that her breastfeeding four-month old daughter was struggling to learn to bottle-feed.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021
Over coffee they shiver: they themselves are fastidious, they will bottle-feed, which is anyway more sanitary.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
A caregiver wore a protective gown and gloves as she bottle-fed a baby -- one of hundreds of children orphaned by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Zoo biologist Michele Viana introduced me directly to Miguel, who was raised by hand and bottle-fed in rehab.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“The nutrition of every bottle-fed infant in America is at stake.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
He tells me he bottle-fed Buster when the cat was a tiny kitten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
He ordered the calf bottle-fed, washed himself in a pail, and got back on his horse.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
But now we found ourselves bottle-feeding Hayden, as we named him, four times a day and later celebrating his successful use of the litter box like the proudest of parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
“No one ever judged me, but I felt ashamed I was bottle-feeding and sad that I couldn’t breastfeed like them,” she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
“Past the age of 6 months I will continue to support breastfeeding and bottle-feeding our daughter breast milk as much as possible, while also supplementing with formula only when absolutely necessary,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
He describes aspects of himself as soft, including the part that has a natural inclination toward petting stray cats and the version that’s captured in his Instagram profile photo, bottle-feeding a baby bird.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
Mrs. Ortiz often fostered infants, so she spent many hours bottle-feeding them.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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