母乳

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 母乳 is read as ぼにゅう and is a noun for breast milk produced to feed an infant.
• Basic usage: Learning about its components appears in 母乳の成分について学ぶ, while placing expressed milk in a container appears in 搾った母乳を容器に入れる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Topic marked by について
  • Use 母乳の成分について when the components of breast milk are the topic of a lesson or explanation.
• Difference from 授乳
  • Unlike the act of feeding milk to an infant, this word names the milk itself.