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Elsewhere in the Instagram Q&A, Paltrow touched on breast-feeding when a fan asked if she had breast-fed her children, Apple Martin, 19, and Moses Martin, 17.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Mr Mwiti says he had heard accounts of how his infant son was breast-fed only once.

From BBC • May 1, 2023

“We have stopped all the medicines that we were giving Aya and now she is being breast-fed when she needs,” Maarouf said by telephone from Afrin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

The plant shutdown and subsequent product recall deepened a supply shortage in a nation where less than half of babies are exclusively breast-fed through their first three months, according to federal data from 2020.

From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2022

This means that the breast-fed human infant is receiving small, but regular additions to the load of toxic chemicals building up in his body.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson