nursing mothers
Women feeding infants
Nursing mothers are women who are breastfeeding their infants.
The phrase appears frequently in medical, legal, and public health contexts—discussions of workplace accommodations, dietary restrictions, or medication safety: This drug is not recommended for nursing mothers.
The term emphasizes the mother's role and condition rather than the act itself.
- breastfeedingLactation-based infant nourishment
- lactationMammary gland secretion
- lactation consultantExpert in infant nursing
- newbornInfant just delivered
- infantVery young child
breast milk · milk · milk supply · latch · pumping · colostrum · nipple · formula · feeding schedule · cradle · bonding · sleepless · sleep deprivation · exhaustion · postpartum recovery · tenderness · swaddle · burping
- women's laborworking women, women workers, female workforce, women in STEM, women in leadership
- wartime civilianscivilians, children, women, elderly, infants
- bat lifehibernaculum, echolocation, torpor, pups
- fitness peoplegym rats, fitness buffs, bodybuilders, weightlifters, weight lifters
- pinnipedsseal, sea lion, sea lions, fur seal, fur seals