Women of all descriptions are liable to be attacked by it during or soon after childbed; but those whose limbs have been pained and anasarcous during pregnancy, and who do not suckle their offspring, are more especially subject to it.
The ability to suckle at birth merely indicates that the infant is prepared to utilize the mechanism which nature will now employ to sustain it.
On the other hand, it is found to be true, as we should naturally expect, that women who decline to suckle the infant recover from childbirth somewhat less rapidly than those who follow nature's plan.
Mr Curquiven and others observed that a large number of women in London do not suckle their offspring, because of a deficient secretion of milk.
Cats have been known to suckle the young of rats, and even of hedgehogs, and to bring in chickens and ducklings, and brood over them.
How strange," said Ida, "for a cat to suckle a puppy.
There was a woman died, and every night she'd come back and bring the baby to the fire, and dress it and suckle it.
So she went, and there was a baby in the place she was brought to, and they asked her to suckle it.
It may be asked: what if the mother is ill and unable to suckle her child?
But such cases have no relation to those in which the rich mother requires a nurse for the child she is unable to suckle herself, owing to pathological reasons.
A daughter of Israel must not suckle a child of an idolatress; but an idolatress may suckle a child of a daughter of Israel, under her observation.
She found the infant Krishna asleep, and began to suckle him with her devil's milk.
In one of the Kashmir tales, the hero in search of tiger's milk shoots an arrow and pierces one of the teats of the tigress, to whom he explains that he hoped she would thus be able to suckle her cubs with less trouble.
When the young has attained a certain size the mother removes it from the "pouch," but takes it in from time to time to suckle it.
However, as ewes can and will suckle their lambs more readily while in small bands, the development of the lamb will be much more rapid where you are not compelled to bunch them too soon.
When the lamb has enough life to take milk, suckle it just a little, not too much; repeat in an hour.
And if they suckle their children for you, give them their hire;f and consult among yourselves, according to what shall be just and reasonable.
I have been informed by a gentleman who has resided in the English West Indian Islands, that he has known instances there of highly educated white women, young and unmarried, making black mothers suckle puppy lap-dogs for them.
The function of the breasts is to nurse or suckle the young on the mother's milk until they are able to live on other food.
They have a hard, bony skeleton and a vertebral column or backbone; warm red blood flows in their veins; they breathe by means of lungs, and suckle their young, which they bring forth alive.
In my opinion mothers ought to nurse and suckle their own children.
And nature itself teaches that mothers ought themselves to suckle and rear those they have given birth to.
The inability to suckle acquires great significance if we realize that it is associated, probably in a large measure as a direct cause, with infantile mortality.
At the Consultations infants are examined and weighed weekly, and the mothers advised and encouraged to suckle their children.
Not the least urgent reason for putting women, and especially mothers, upon a sounder economic basis, is the necessity of enabling them to suckletheir children.
It may be added that in Leipzig the plan of subsidizing mothers who (under proper medical and other supervision) suckle their infants has already been introduced.
Where nurseries are attached to factories, enabling the mother to suckle her infant in intervals of work, the period may doubtless be shortened.
It is involved in the proper fulfilment of a mother's relationship to her infant child that, provided she is healthy, she should suckle it.
It appears that in Sweden, in the middle of the eighteenth century, it was a punishable offense for a woman to give her baby the bottle when she was able to suckle it.
An additional reason why the mother shouldsuckle her child is the close and frequent association with the child thus involved.
But what he dwelt on still more was the absolute physical incapacity of so many English mothers to suckle their own offspring.
When he discovered that so many Englishwomen would not or could not suckle their babes, he remarked that England had started on the same downward course as France.
These cubs are nursed along with and in the same manner as the children, and Ainu say that women often put them to the breast and suckle them like their own infants.
Sometimes, moreover, the normal mammary glands are fully developed and can suckle in the male; but as a rule they are merely rudimentary organs without functions in the male.
The mammary glands of the Placentals are provided with teats like those of the Marsupials; but we never find in the Placentals the pouch in which the latter carry and suckle their young.
A woman in ordinary health will generally be able to suckle her child for twelve months without experiencing any bad effects.
Indeed it is the habit among some nations to suckle children until they are three or four years of age, even though another pregnancy may intervene, so that immediately one child is succeeded at the breast by another.
In consumption, all efforts to suckle are frequently equally fatal to the mother and child.
The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as "all animals which have a vertebrated skeleton and suckle their young.
On the 24th the animal took her food in the morning, and appeared very careful of her young, shifting it from side to side to suckle it, and folding it in the membranes of the tail and wings.
Bats produce their young alive, and suckle them; the milk being produced by special glands.
Mr. Larke's Princess Thor had a litter of seventeen, but even eight is too great a number for a bitch to suckle in a breed where great size is a desideratum.
When the puppies are all born, their dam may be given a drink of warm milk and then left alone to their toilet and to suckle them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suckle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
