🤱

Breast-feeding Emoji 🤱

A parent nursing an infant — straightforward and literal, used in posts about new babies, breastfeeding support, and the realities of life with a newborn. It shows up often in parenting communities working to normalize feeding a baby in public.

What 🤱 means

A portrayal of a woman with side-parted hair and a warm, affectionate smile, looking at the baby she's holding in her arms while she breast-feeds the child.

The 🤱 Breast-Feeding emoji refers to a mother nurturing and nursing her infant. It signifies motherhood, the joys of being a mom, the warmth between the mother and the child, and a sacred bond between the two.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

🤱 is an emotion, more than just an emoji. Keeping in mind the intimacy and the special bond shared in this emoji, it is always civil to use it in the right contexts.
If you're a new mom, and you're posting extremely sweet pictures of you feeding your baby, you can use 🤱 in the post caption.
🤱 can be used in post captions or within messages for World Breastfeeding Week.
If you're sharing breastfeeding tips, breastfeeding benefits, etc, either in personal chat with a close friend or as a tweet, etc, you can use 🤱 within this context.
🤱 can also be used in your social media profile name if you're a new mother and you're in love with the divine power of breastfeeding.
You can also use 🤱 while posting pictures of your newborn baby, a relative's baby, or even your godchild.
🤱 can be used even in the context of wet nursing.

Other Names

🤱 Woman Breastfeeding
🤱 Nursing
🤱 Wet Nurse
🤱 Nourishing
🤱 New Mom
🤱 Cradling
🤱 Feeding
🤱 Baby Food (technically, yes.)
🤱 Mum Feeding Baby
🤱 World Breastfeeding Week
🤱 Breastfed Baby

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F931
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :breast_feeding: GitHub · Discord:breast-feeding: Slack
Keywords: baby, breast, breast-feeding, feeding, mom, mother, nursing, woman

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.