breastfeeding
Speech parts
1. breastfeeding - Noun
2. breastfeeding - Verb
Meaning
breastfeeding (countable and uncountable, plural breastfeedings)
(uncountable) The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.
breastfeeding
present participle of breastfeed
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
You cannot place a mother breastfeeding her baby on an equal footing with men. You cannot make women work in the same jobs as men do, as in communist regimes. You cannot give them a shovel and tell them to do their work. This is against their delicate nature.
I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!'
It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.
Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.