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breastfeed

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breast-feed

(brĕst′fēd′)
v. breast·fed (-fĕd′), breast·feeding, breast·feeds
v.tr.
To feed (a baby) mother's milk from the breast; suckle.
v.intr.
To breastfeed a baby.
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[11,12] Appropriate feeding during illness is important to prevent nutritional deficiencies and in the present study, 88.23% continued to breast-feed their infants during episodes of diarrhoea.
A study of breast-feeding practices among mothers of infants who are attending outpatient services at a tertiary care hospital, Nizamabad
A mother who feeds formula or other food part of the time and breast-feeds to fill in is therefore increasing her baby's vulnerability to HIV infection.
"We already know how to prevent breast-feeding transmission: Don't breast-feed," says Lynne Mofenson of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md.
The researchers didn't randomly assign women to breast-feed or formula feed, but studied healthy and HIV-infected women who chose to breast-feed only, bottle-feed only, or supplement breast-feeding with formula, milk, or solid foods.
At an October 2006 meeting in Geneva, WHO members refined the breast-feeding recommendation for HIV-infected women to emphasize that the first choice for babies during their first 6 months is exclusive breast-feeding, unless the conditions for bottle-feedhag are "acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe." That is, women should exclusively breast-feed if they don't have access to clean water, good health care and medicines, and formula.
The breast solution: nature's nutrition keeps HIV at bay
Mothers who are HIV positive or who have AIDS should consult their medical professional when malting the decision to breast-feed.
Breast-feeding the Baby with Special Needs

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