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breast feed·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nursing, breast feedingnoun

    nourishing at the breast

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  1. breast feeding

    Breastfeeding is the process of feeding a baby or young infant with milk directly from a woman's breasts, rather than using infant formula. It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to eat and digest solid foods.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Breast Feeding

    The nursing of an infant at the mother's breast.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of breast feeding in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of breast feeding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of breast feeding in a Sentence

  1. Gideon Lack:

    Prolonged breast feeding is extremely important, the study highlights the fact that it is safe and potentially beneficial to introduce solid foods, including allergenic foods, into a baby's diet after 3 months of age.

  2. Avital Norman Nathman:

    While I am 100% pro-breast-feeding and would love for every mom to at least attempt it if it works for them, you can't lock up formula and have people have to request it in a way that's shaming because that's not helping breast-feeding. That's not going to help any mother breast-feed, to make them worry too much if I can't breast-feed, am I going to be shamed into my choice? i think formula should be available and not in a way that you have to sign a waiver that you're aware you're giving your child formula if you need to.

  3. Jessica Wardell:

    The main problem people have with breast-feeding is they sexualize breasts, so it offends them, if we could make them less taboo, breast-feeding would be much more acceptable in society.

  4. Elizabeth Hoff:

    The female doctor said mothers had absolutely no milk for breast-feeding, the milk had dried up and the babies are not satisfied.

  5. Cesar Victora:

    Breast-feeding is one of the few health and nutrition indicators for which poor countries are closer to international recommendations than rich ones.

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