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  • noun Plural form of breastfeeder.

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Examples

  • Infants who breastfeed in the first hour of life are more successful long-term breastfeeders.8 Those who are placed on the mother’s abdomen after birth will instinctively try to crawl to the breast and especially if the birth was unmedicated will usually find the breast and suckle within the first hour of life.9

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • It supports harassing breastfeeders and telling them how to behave, for spurious reasons.

    Under The Blanket | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • I get a little tired of people complaining about being judged by the pro-breastfeeders because really?

    A follow-up in search of solutions. « A Bird’s Nest 2008

  • Reading that article one certainly gets the impression that non-breastfeeders are lonely strugglers against the tide, with "everybody else" sneering at them.

    "The happiness of the mother is far, far more important in shaping the life of the child than whether or not the child was breast-fed as a baby." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Or maybe pointing out that mom-to-be and breastfeeders would have to lay off the bourbon would keep signatures off the ballot.

    every sperm is sacred | clusterflock 2009

  • And there were two babes-in-arms - the breastfeeders in the family who are too dependent on their moms to be left behind, but there were many arms to share the load and they were a joy to have along.

    Girls' Weekend Away Susan 2009

  • It supports harassing breastfeeders and telling them how to behave, for spurious reasons.

    Under The Blanket 2008

  • Differences between exclusive breastfeeders, formula feeders and controls: a study of stress, mood and endocrine variables.

    Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

  • Differences between exclusive breastfeeders, formula feeders and controls: a study of stress, mood and endocrine variables.

    Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007

  • Images that were decent, moreover, under the standards of LiveJournal FAQ 111, until it was changed mid-scandal to support the banning of images of the Madonna and other scandalous breastfeeders.

    Lack of Livejournalling « Whatever 2006

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