breast-fed

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Adj.

breast-fed - (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast

bottle-fed - (of an infant) given milk from a bottle

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breast-fed

[ˈbrestfed] ADJ → criado a pecho

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

breast-fed

[ˈbrɛstˌfɛd] adj → allattato/a al seno

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A STUDY claiming that babies who aren't exclusively breast-fed for the first six months of their life are more likely to become obese split opinion among our online readers.

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Not all moms choose to or are physically able to breast-feed; for those who do, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be breast-fed during the first year for the best health outcomes.

Breast pumping at work makes the gender pay gap worse

The relative risk for bottle fed infants ending exclusive breast-fed as compared to syringe fed infants is 1.01 (95% CI = 0.82; 1.24).

SYRINGE FEEDING VERSUS BOTTLE FEEDING; IMPACT ON BREAST FEEDING

Children who were breast-fed exclusively for the first six months of life were less likely to have teeth alignment issues than those who were breast-fed for a shorter time or bottle-fed, the American Dental Association (ADA) says.

Breast-Feeding May Help Teeth

Although breast-feeding is nearly universal in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, only 63% of children under six months are exclusively breast-fed. In addition, only 58% are put to breast within the first day of life and only 25% are started on breast-feeding in the first hour of life.

Study of factors affecting breast-feeding initiation in the golden hour in a tertiary care centre

But the Maternal Healthcare Law and other legislation soon required hospitals to 'room-in' their babies, meaning the babies, after being bathed, should be immediately brought to the mother's room and breast-fed.

Shamcey Supsup-Lee chooses breast-feeding-even if it's a challenge for some moms

Researchers analyzed over 1,600 women with breast cancer and found that those who previously breast-fed had a 30% overall decreased risk of breast cancer recurrence: this link was not as strong among women who breast-fed for less than 6 months.

Women who breast-feed their children and later develop breast cancer are less likely to experience a cancer recurrence, compared to women who did not breastfeed

According to WHO, if every child was breast-fed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breast-feeding up to the age of two years, about 800,000 child lives would be saved every year.

Ministry of Health pitches for breast-feeding in Oman

The rate of breast-fed babies in Redcar and Cleveland has fallen 1.8% since 2005.

Feeding baby is so natural ... you should never be told to leave

GREATER support is needed in County Durham where less than a third of newborns are still being breast-fed by the time they are eight weeks old, it was claimed last night.

It's time to latch on to benefits of breast milk

He quoted a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) which suggested that among infants 0 - 6 months old, 25.7% were reported to be exclusively breast-fed while 51.3% were mix-fed.

Motsoaledi: promote breast-feeding by restricting formula

A study of more than 2,200 women found that mothers who breast-fed their babies for at least one month had noticeably lower rates of type 2 diabetes later in life than mothers who never breast-fed.