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breastfeeding

feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman's breast
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breastfeeding
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breastfeeding

Summary

breastfeeding is a nutrition[1]. breastfeeding draws 3,115 Wikipedia views per month (nutrition category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • breastfeeding's instance of is recorded as nutrition[3].
  • breastfeeding is a type of infant feeding[4].
  • breastfeeding is a type of human lactation[5].
  • breastfeeding's Commons category is recorded as Breastfeeding[6].
  • breastfeeding's Unicode character is recorded as 🤱[7].
  • breastfeeding comprises breastfeeding in Islam[8].
  • breastfeeding's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Breastfeeding[9].
  • breastfeeding's facet of is recorded as women's health[10].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Gender Glossar[13].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • breastfeeding's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[16].
  • breastfeeding's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C25596[17].
  • breastfeeding's uses is recorded as lactation room[18].
  • breastfeeding's studied by is recorded as lactation science[19].
  • breastfeeding's practiced by is recorded as wet nurse[20].
  • breastfeeding's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[21].
  • breastfeeding's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/breastfeeding[22].

Body

Definition and Type

breastfeeding's instance of is recorded as nutrition[3]. Recorded subclass of include infant feeding[4] and human lactation[5].

Use and Application

breastfeeding comprises breastfeeding in Islam[8].

Why It Matters

breastfeeding draws 3,115 Wikipedia views per month (nutrition category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] breastfeeding has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] breastfeeding is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → nutrition
    Has parts → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia
    Topic's main category → Category:Breastfeeding
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2294, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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