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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

Human wet nurses to suckle sickly faerie infants.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

It lays eggs as birds do, but suckles its young as do other mammalia.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

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

And as God willed, no longer did he need to be suckled, nor did I take fever; that I might not be tormented by care for the child and by the pain of my breasts.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

My mother died when I was born, so I was suckled by one of the sheep.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

There’s only so much suckling pig and paella one could handle, so I found myself seeking the finest examples of tomato bread, city by city.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

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

At the King’s Coffee House a suckling pig was so crisp and brown it was fairly bursting.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes