suckle
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Mazakpwe cited a range of lactation issues mothers can face, from sore nipples to babies born too sick or too weak to suckle and stimulate milk production.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
On Thursday morning, she tried to get her 9-month-old daughter to suckle.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
The National Pig Association estimates 60% of UK sows are kept on indoor pig units and the majority of them give birth and suckle their piglets in farrowing crates.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022
Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021
The Nogtail will creep into a sty and suckle an ordinary sow alongside her own young.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
President Volodymyr Zelensky has been heeding a wise Ukrainian proverb: A gentle calf suckles two mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It is named for the she-wolf who suckles twin boys in Rome’s origin myth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
As the baby suckles at the breast, it picks up more microbes from its mother’s skin.
From Nature ● Mar. 6, 2018
When the infant suckles, sensory nerve fibers in the areola trigger a neuroendocrine reflex that results in milk secretion from lactocytes into the alveoli.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In Tonga the mother suckles her child as soon as the milk comes.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
I stared at Noah’s bobbing Adam’s apple as he suckled at his bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
They were discovered by a female wolf and suckled by her, eventually growing up and exacting their revenge on their treacherous uncle.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
She snuggled up to her mother, suckled two or three times, more for comfort than food, and fell back to sleep.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
But a pregnant or suckling female is especially ravenous and will continue to forage for two for up to 1 year after giving birth.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
But the study also showed that subjective evaluation of infants' suckling ability by a clinician inserting their fingertip into the infants' mouth, which is currently standard practice, could be improved by data the device generates.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
In 2015, a research team from two U.S. universities tested tunes incorporating feline-centric sounds that included purring and a pulse reminiscent of suckling.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Run by JM Nixon and Son, the farm had 140 suckling beef cattle as well as several holiday cottages and a riding school.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
We had roast young suckling pig and drank rioja alta.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
