Feeding the Roman nursling : maternal milk, its substitutes, and their limitations

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serval:BIB_061F692CEE50
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Case report (case report): feedback on an observation with a short commentary.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Feeding the Roman nursling : maternal milk, its substitutes, and their limitations
Journal
Latomus
Author(s)
Centlivres Challet Claude-Emmanuelle
ISSN
0023-8856
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2017
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
17
Pages
895-909
Language
english
Abstract
This paper investigates what substitutes for maternal milk existed for Roman infants whose mothers were not able or not willing to breastfeed. It examines the potential reasons why a mother could or would not breastfeed or why an infant could not suckle, and the various attested or hypothetical alternatives to maternal milk about which literary and archaeological sources as well as anthropological, sociological and practical considerations inform us, from wet nurses to animal milk, from a bottle or from the udder, to allomaternal nursing.
Keywords
Roman breastfeeding, maternal milk, bottle feeding, animal milk, allomaternal nursing, wet nursing, infant nutrition, infant mortality, archeological sources, Latin texts
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