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breast-feed

[brest-feed] / ˈbrɛstˌfid /


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She plans to breast-feed as long as she can, aiming for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

So researchers are left mainly with observational studies, which examine the babies whose mothers have chosen to breast-feed.

From The New Yorker May 27, 2019

Pumping is a short-term concern for those who choose to breast-feed, but child care is an ongoing need for all parents on film and TV sets.

From Seattle Times May 17, 2019

This year, remarkably, marks the first year that it has been legal to breast-feed in public in all 50 states.

From Washington Post Aug. 22, 2018

For us, as in America, it’s known to be healthy to breast-feed.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

Sam was still being breast-fed, though not as frequently, and his sleep had improved.

From BBC May 11, 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

The plant shutdown and subsequent product recall deepened a supply shortage in a nation where less than half of babies are exclusively breast-fed through their first three months, according to federal data from 2020.

From Reuters Aug. 27, 2022

Fawcett, meanwhile, was playing for the San Diego Spirit six weeks after giving birth to her third child, whom she breast-fed during halftime of games.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 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

Nestlé has weathered controversies before, including a U.S. boycott in the late 1970s tied to marketing baby formula as an alternative to breast-feeding in developing countries.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

The ASA said it understood the weight-loss medication "carried safety warnings for people who were breast-feeding".

From BBC Dec. 16, 2025

Her son, who was still breast-feeding, fell sick with diarrhea and dehydration.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

Under current labelling rules, any drink, other than tea or coffee, with over 150mg of caffeine per litre requires a warning label saying: "High caffeine content. Not recommended for children or pregnant or breast-feeding women."

From BBC Sep. 2, 2025

She is given a list of pediatricians, and coundess brochures on breast-feeding, and bonding, and immunizing, and samples of baby shampoos and Q-Tips and creams.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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