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Breastfeeding has been important since the beginning of mankind.
In approximately 1800 BC Hammurabi's Code regulated the behavior and
the health of wet nurses
(a wet nurse is someone who nurses another's baby regularly).
In Sparta, Greece,
Spartan women were required to nurse their eldest son.
This was the child who was expected to inherit the family name.
At other times during history breastfeeding has been seen as
something that only lower class or poor people did.
In France in the early 1800's,
most upper class women hired wet nurses for their infants
(
Lawrence, 2005
p. 6-12).
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