Liaison office of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Al Sistani (L.M.H.L) in London, Europe, North and South America.
2496. The child's mother is the best person to suckle a child. It is
better that she does not claim any award from her husband for suckling the
child, although it is good that he should reward her for that. However, if the
mother demands more payment for suckling than a wet-nurse, her husband can
entrust the child to the wet-nurse.
2497. It is recommended that the wet-nurse, whose services are
obtained for a child, should be Shia Ithna-Asheri, sane, chaste, and good
looking; and it is Makrooh for a wet-nurse to be a non-Shia Ithna-Asheri or
ugly, ill-humoured or illegitimate. It is also Makrooh to entrust the child to a
wet-nurse who has given birth to an illegitimate child.