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Avyan was being breast-fed but his father says the family - who live in Indore city in India's central Madhya Pradesh state - gave him the diluted mixture in addition.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

Elsewhere in the Instagram Q&A, Paltrow touched on breast-feeding when a fan asked if she had breast-fed her children, Apple Martin, 19, and Moses Martin, 17.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023

“We have stopped all the medicines that we were giving Aya and now she is being breast-fed when she needs,” Maarouf said by telephone from Afrin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Fewer than half the babies born in the United States were exclusively breast-fed through their first three months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2020 Breastfeeding Report Card.

From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2022

This means that the breast-fed human infant is receiving small, but regular additions to the load of toxic chemicals building up in his body.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson