[Historical evolution of breastfeeding. Rights and family conciliation]

Human milk has been and it is an important means of survival for the human being. The history of the breastfeeding has been linked to the woman's social and cultural situation and it has gone by different vicissitudes. During a long period the breastfeeding was considered as an unsightly unworthy practice and characteristic of low classes, women that had resources nurses used. In the XIX century artificial nursing appears that will be developed significantly starting from half-filled of the following century relegating, again, to a second plane to the natural nursing. With the beginning of the XX century the first rights of the workers appear and among them it is regulated the right for the first time to the permission for nursing. With the advance of the century diverse norms enlarge their content. Arriving to the current moment in which the right enjoys a wide legal recognition inside the norms that regulate the family reconciliation.