Note minime in tema di contratti di allattamento.

The contribution highlights, about to motherhood and the breastfeeding, that in the wealthiest families, in Rome and in the provinces, the child was entrusted to a wet nurse. The mother's choice does not always appear to be free and dictated by aesthetic reasons and vanity, but prompted by social reasons or by the need arising from a condition of debilitation after childbirth, from illness or from the quality of the milk itself unsuitable to guarantee correct nutrition of the newborn, but also, given the spread of cot deaths, to become pregnant again. The onerous entrustment of the care and breastfeeding service to wet nurses, free or of servile rank, was deduced in specific contractual agreements, and regulated in the practice returned by the Egyptian papyri, on the basis of traditional medical prescriptions, also known in Rome. Among these was the limitation of the sexual freedom of women, who had the obligation not to damage their milk, πρὸς τὸ μὴ διαφθαρῆναι τὸ ἑαυτῆς γάλα (ex aliis, P. Oxy 78.5168; CPG. I 10, 11), with inappropriate behavior, and not to have sexual intercourse or become pregnant.