Antonyms for breastfeedbreast·feed

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1. breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suckverb

   give suck to

   "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

   Antonyms:
   bottlefeed

   Synonyms:
   soak up, entertain, go down on, sop up, wet-nurse, fellate, hold, draw, give suck, absorb, suckle, take in, suck in, harbour, nurse, imbibe, lactate, blow, take up, suck up, harbor, suck

How to use breastfeed in a sentence?

1. Cindy Shelton:

   It’s an unlimited buffet so babies self-regulate when they breastfeed. They’re not going to overfeed or underfeed but sometimes they want a snack.

2. Jennifer Grayson:

   You have to look at this as a societal issue…the fact that we’re promoting ‘breast is best’ in an environment where there is such an utter lack of support for American women to be able to successfully breastfeed their babies.

3. Russell Viner:

   The proportion of young mothers, the proportion of those who smoke during pregnancy, the proportion who don't breastfeed are worse than in other EU countries.

4. Molly Fox:

   Future studies will be needed to explore the relationship between women’s history of breastfeeding and cognitive performance in larger, more geographically diverse groups of women. It is important to better understand the health implications of breastfeeding for women, given that women today breastfeed less frequently and for shorter time periods than was practiced historically.

5. Robert Kaestner:

   That’s a very problematic way to proceed, given the obvious differences you think of between those who breastfeed and those who don’t, we can’t make policy based on an accounting exercise that is not as well founded as we’d like.

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