Breastfeed used in a sentence

Breastfeed in a sentence as a verb

So her only jobs for the first six weeks were to recover, breastfeed, pump breast milk, eat, and sleep.

"At the same time, breastfeeding is insanely expensive.

And on that logic, my wife shouldn't breastfeed my son in public. It is unnecessary, she can just go to a private room.

There have been a ton of controlled studies on breastfeeding--it's not an area that's lacking in data.

She's constantly bombarded by parenting fads that tell her she's a bad mom if she doesn't breastfeed/wear her baby around in a sling/etc.

Could be, but I bet the amount of people who breastfeed their kids for 2 years is dwarfed by the amount of people who don't, but due to chance have kids 2+ years apart.

And forget about being able to reason through the research on alcohol exposure in pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Breast milk versus formula is an intensely studied issue, and despite all the study the proven advantages of breastfeeding are extremely tenuous.

It is not that "we don't know enough about the advantages of breastfeeding, so we'll assume that natural = bad." It's that "we do know about the advantages of breastfeeding, and they are tenuous, and therefore we should balance those minor benefits against the costs of breastfeeding.

Living in a suburban area where driving is a necessity and it is common for teenagers to drive is going to have more of a practical impact on your child than whether you breastfeed or not.

Given the extremely tenuous proven benefits of breastfeeding, a baby is almost certainly better off in the long run from the mom's increased earning power from not having to downshift her career to breastfeed.

When my wife was pregnant, we were faced with decisions like whether to get genetic testing and whether to breastfeed, but were frustrated to deal with statistical incompetence from doctors and nurses who couldn't explain the consequences of courses of action except in child-like "do this" and "don't do this" ways.

Are you saying they don't have time for pumping, but they can afford child care and formula?Most women produce less milk pumping than breastfeeding, and pumping enough milk during the day to feed the baby through the next day is a huge hassle because it's time consuming and you have to do it several times a day to get enough supply.