Synonyms for breastfeed
breast·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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   bottlefeed

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1. List of paraphrases for "breastfeed":

   breast-feed, nurse

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1. 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.

2. Renee Rosales:

   The choice to breastfeed is strictly the mother’s choice, the mother will decide what’s best for her and her baby.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Mily Treviño-Sauceda:

   Even if they want to breastfeed, they can't. They work between nine to 13 hours a day with few breaks. They travel long distances to their low-pay jobs, they don't have adequate healthcare or other support to even pump at work.