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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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Summary

breastfeeding is a nutrition[1]. breastfeeding draws 7,140 Wikipedia views per month (nutrition category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: infant feeding[3], human lactation[4]
  • Commons category: Breastfeeding[5]
  • Unicode character: 🤱[6]
  • Has part(s): breastfeeding in Islam[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Breastfeeding[8]
  • Facet of: women's health[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11], Gender Glossar[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Pax Leksikon[15]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C25596[16]
  • Uses: lactation room[17]
  • Studied by: lactation science[18]
  • Practiced by: wet nurse[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[20]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/breastfeeding[21]

Why It Matters

breastfeeding has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] breastfeeding is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . 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. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295595
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q295595, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004821-kojeni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004821-kojeni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 20w ago · O Breixo · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Breastfeeding infant.jpg, Albert Neuhuys - Moeder zoogt haar kind bij de haard.jpg, Leonardo da Vinci - The Madonna and Child (The Litta Madonna
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 141379
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 141379"
  4. 20w ago · JackyM59 · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Breastfeeding infant.jpg, Albert Neuhuys - Moeder zoogt haar kind bij de haard.jpg, Leonardo da Vinci - The Madonna and Child (The Litta Madonna
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Le repos pendant la fuite en Égypte par Orazio Gentileschi.jpg"
  5. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 2294, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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