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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
breastfeed .
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Examples
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The Pumpkin breastfed for three days short of two years.
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Roughly 10% of the mothers breastfed their children exclusively for at least six months.
Why You Forget Birthdays Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010
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I remember how horrible the pain of not being able to feed was. ** shudder** My mother breastfed my cousin when she was a baby because her mom was ill at the time.
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Both girls were exclusively breastfed-we would trade off sitting for each other every now and again and if the child needed nursing we did it.
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I was a breastfed baby myself (until age 3), and have been surrounded with nursing mothers (at work, friends, family) my entire life.
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Overall, the infants in the study developed an average of 4.3 infections during their first year, but that rate was 0.7 infection per year lower for exclusively breastfed infants than for others.
Why You Forget Birthdays Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010
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I'm a twin – second to arrive – and my mother breastfed us together.
Jerry Hall: 'So Jean-Paul Sartre asked me to sit at his table…' John Hind 2010
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Although millions have been spent on the promotion of breastfeeding in the past decade, Britain has one of the world's lowest rates of breastfeeding, with 35% of babies exclusively breastfed at one week old, 21% at six weeks, 7% at four months and 3% at six months.
Breastfed babies are smarter and get a better chance in life 2011
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Individually, several other infections (including conjunctivitis and urinary-tract infections) were less common among exclusively breastfed infants, but not to a statistically significant degree.
Why You Forget Birthdays Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010
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As someone who has never breastfed a child, the situation weirds me out a little, but the more I rationally consider it, the less of an issue it seems.
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