From "Breasts, Bottles, & Babies:  A history of infant feeding" by Valerie
Fildes

"Pliny, Plutarch, Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, all of the 2nd century AD,
wrote strongly in favour of mothers of all classes feeding their own
babies......they emphasised that if children were given to a wet nurse, then
the bond of affection and love between mother and child would wither,
possibly building up problems in later life."

Valerie Fildes goes on to say that it was the Roman medical writers who
unlike the moralists were more in favor of wet nursing and she quotes
Soranus, who had alot to say about wet nursing.   Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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