suckle
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Mazakpwe cited a range of lactation issues mothers can face, from sore nipples to babies born too sick or too weak to suckle and stimulate milk production.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021
There was no guarantee that the other mothers would protect Lucy, much less allow her to suckle, as that would mean fewer precious nutrients for their own calves.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2021
Veterinarians listened to the cub’s heart and lungs, tested its suckle reflex and moved all four limbs to test muscular development.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2020
They would suckle their cubs and sometimes bring back a large bone or a whole head from a kill.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
President Volodymyr Zelensky has been heeding a wise Ukrainian proverb: A gentle calf suckles two mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
As the baby suckles at the breast, it picks up more microbes from its mother’s skin.
From Nature ● Mar. 6, 2018
The baby is put to the breast and suckles from a slender tube attached to the breast that delivers breast milk that someone else has pumped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
When the infant suckles, sensory nerve fibers in the areola trigger a neuroendocrine reflex that results in milk secretion from lactocytes into the alveoli.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In Tonga the mother suckles her child as soon as the milk comes.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
“Good baby!” said a woman to one as it suckled on a bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2019
And as God willed, no longer did he need to be suckled, nor did I take fever; that I might not be tormented by care for the child and by the pain of my breasts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
My mother died when I was born, so I was suckled by one of the sheep.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
There’s only so much suckling pig and paella one could handle, so I found myself seeking the finest examples of tomato bread, city by city.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
But a pregnant or suckling female is especially ravenous and will continue to forage for two for up to 1 year after giving birth.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
"Our measurement system aims to offer rapid and precise data on an infant's suckling ability early on, empowering clinicians to address root causes quickly and potentially mitigate breastfeeding attrition," Truong said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
In 2015, a research team from two U.S. universities tested tunes incorporating feline-centric sounds that included purring and a pulse reminiscent of suckling.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
I am a woman wed, and here’s my suckling babe.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
