breast-feed
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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
In her latest collection, the author unspools eight tales, including one about a new mother who ensures the safety of her infant by agreeing to breast-feed the devil.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019
The study’s authors said that the woman was able to exclusively breast-feed the infant for six weeks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 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
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
Mr Mwiti says he had heard accounts of how his infant son was breast-fed only once.
From BBC ● May 1, 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 baby had been breast-fed since birth, but his mother noticed right away that he had more trouble doing that than his three older brothers had.
From New York Times ● Sep. 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
The medical body instead tells women to discuss with their doctor the pros and cons of taking these drugs while breast-feeding, but recommends waiting until the baby is one month old before considering their use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
For women planning to have children, the surgery means forgoing breast-feeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The ASA said it understood the weight-loss medication "carried safety warnings for people who were breast-feeding".
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
At home I found my mother breast-feeding the new baby, Dinah.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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