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
The picture has improved a bit since then—babies now breast-feed a little longer—but the over-all pattern holds.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Though families can visit babies in a NICU, and mothers can breast-feed them, the bright, stimulating atmosphere may worsen a baby’s withdrawal symptoms, necessitating more drugs and longer treatment.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
The pope encouraged women to breast-feed their child if needed in the Sistine Chapel:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 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
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
“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
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
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
She talks about her intense anxiety for her infant son, whom she was still breast-feeding when she was arrested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
This is why energy drinks containing over 150mg of caffeine, for example, are already required by EU law to carry labels stating: "High caffeine content. Not recommended for children or pregnant or breast-feeding women".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025
Downstairs, the woman is awake and breast-feeding her baby.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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