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Definition of Breast feeding
1. Noun. Nourishing at the breast.
Definition of Breast feeding
1. Verb. (present participle of breast feed) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Breast feeding
1. The ability of the breast to produce milk diminishes soon after childbirth without the stimulation of breastfeeding. Immunity factors in breast milk can help the baby to fight off infections. Breast milk contains vitamins, minerals, and enzymes which aid the baby's digestion. Breast and formula feeding can be used together. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breast Feeding
Literary usage of Breast feeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Most of the variation in drug use between breast-feeding and not ... Long-term
medication in breast-feeding women included many drugs for which there is ..."
2. Simplified Infant Feeding: With Eighty Illustrative Cases by Roger Herbert Dennett (1920)
"On the other hand, we should not persist in exclusive breast feeding if the infant
does not gain at least three or four ounces a week during the second ..."
3. Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding by John Lovett Morse, Fritz Bradley Talbot (1920)
"SECTION H breast feeding CHAPTER IX GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS It is generally
recognized that the natural food for the human infant is human milk, ..."
4. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland (1911)
"Breast-feeding, either by the mother or by a wet-nurse. 2. Mixed feeding, or a
combination of nursing and artificial feeding. 3. ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"breast feeding.—The ideal method of feeding the congenitally weak, and the one
which is attended with the greatest number of successes, is that with breast ..."
6. Diseases of infants and children by Henry Dwight Chapin, Godfrey Roger Pisek (1911)
"An infant that is fed artificially is in reality a premature infant, for
breast-feeding belongs in the same category as maternal feeding through the ..."
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