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Specifically, the researchers from the University of California San Diego measured if babies are generating enough suckling strength to breastfeed and whether they are suckling in a regular pattern based on eight independent parameters.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

When the pups are suckling, mothers lose around half their body mass, while pups undergo a seven-fold increase in body weight, because of the "exceptional fat content" of their mother's milk.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2021

Cows, goats and sheep produce milk only after giving birth to calves, kids and lambs, and only as long as the youngsters are suckling.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Sore mouth of nursing women, as the name of the disease indicates, is peculiar to women who are suckling children.

From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by Hill, B. L. (Benjamin L.)

Just at the time, I happened to be reading what Dr. Whitlaw, a foreign medical writer, says of the effects which sometimes follow when cows that are suckling calves feed on buttercup.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)