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Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of breast-feed.
- adj. That has been suckled at its mother's breast
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast
Examples
“It takes about ten days for a full-term breast-fed infant’s intestines to be colonized with bacterial flora the good bacteria, while formula-fed infants have more complex bacteria flora in their gut.”
“We know that solutions as simple as keeping newborns warm, clean and properly breast-fed can keep them alive.”
USA Today: U.S. newborn death rate higher than in 40 other nations
“She breast-fed both and now works as a breast-feeding peer counselor at the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C., where many patients are low-income or minority mothers.”
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“Had I been more closely tied to a workplace, I would have breast-fed during my maternity leave and then given him formula exclusively, with no guilt.”
“Both the Kramer study and the sibling study did turn up one interesting finding: a bump in “cognitive ability” among breast-fed children.”
“These simply look for differences in two populations, one breast-fed and one not.”
“I dutifully breast-fed each of my first two children for the full year that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.”
“The problem is, breast-fed infants are typically brought up in very different families from those raised on the bottle.”
“Like many babies of my generation, I was never breast-fed.”
“None seems to explain the Willis household in Charlotte Neither parent smokes, both children have had all recommended vaccines, and Vanessa breast-fed each child for about three months.”
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