bottle feeding

Infant formula delivery

Bottle feeding is nourishing an infant with milk or formula from a bottle rather than from the breast.

The term covers both formula feeding and giving expressed breast milk.

As a verb, to bottle-feed: She bottle-fed her twins for the first six months.

The practice allows others besides the mother to participate in feeding.

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infant feeding method

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Lactation-based infant nourishment

nursing · breast feeding · suckling · wet nursing · latching

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