BREASTFEEDING

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from female human breasts rather than using infant formula. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. Experts recommend that children be breastfed within one hour of birth, exclusively breastfed for the first six months, and then breastfed until age two with age-appropriate, nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends for the U.S. that after 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, babies should continue to breastfeed "for a year and for as long as is mutually desired by the mother and baby".

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breastfeeding

Noun

  1. The activity of feeding a baby or young child milk from the breast of a lactating woman.

Verb

breastfeeding



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breast feeding

Verb



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