Breast Fed

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BF
Pronunciation
/brɛst fɛd/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. A study by the University of Edinburgh found three-quarters of mothers who attended all or most of their antenatal classes breast fed their child.
  2. What if a child was never breast fed, but fed from the bottle from the start?
  3. Studies have shown that babies who are breast fed are less likely to be obese in later life and gain protection against conditions like asthma, eczema and chest infections.
  4. Haematological effect of iron supplementation in breast fed term low birth weight infants
  5. The average weaning age of these rural children was 18. 2 months. The weaning time of mixed fed children was 3 months earlier than those of breast fed children.

Other meanings of BF