{"id":60773,"date":"2020-03-26T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T08:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=60773"},"modified":"2020-03-26T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T08:10:15","slug":"breastfeeding-in-roman-times","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/breastfeeding-in-roman-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding in Roman times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rich Roman matrons did not breastfeed their children. For these purposes, slaves or freedmen were usually used. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soranus &#8211; Greek philosopher and doctor from the 2nd century CE &#8211; in his work <em>De arte obsterica morbisque mulierum<\/em> he confirmed this practice as beneficial, due to the fact that the mother after birth was too exhausted to feed the child. Moreover, a Greek slave woman, feeding her child with her milk, could give him the ability to learn Greek. In turn, when the infant reaches the age of 6 months, it was necessary to start feeding them with bread softened in wine.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Roman medics and philosophers had a different opinion and thought that mother&#8217;s milk should be delivered to the child. In their opinion, breastfeeding mother could transfer the defective features of a slave to a child. Roman men, in turn, considered a wife who did not feed her offspring as lazy and vain, who only cared for her figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37153,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-60773","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=60773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}