Fatores que influenciam as nutrizes a interromperem a amamentação exclusiva durante os primeiros seis meses de vida do lactente

Resumo (EN)

Objective – To analyze the difficulties reported by nursing mothers and what were the factors that influenced the interruption of the practice of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of the infant's life. Breast milk is the best food in the world for the health of babies, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health. In 2001, the WHO started to adopt exclusive breastfeeding as a recommendation until the infant's sixth month of life, which refers to the practice of breastfeeding the baby only with breast milk, without the need to offer any other type of food. Methods – A questionnaire was applied in order to obtain information measuring early weaning by nursing mothers. Participants received the Informed Consent Form, inserted in the online questionnaire and the processing of the data obtained was carried out using the Google forms® platform. Results – Thirty-three mothers participated in the study. The duration of exclusive breastfeeding observed in the survey conducted with the mothers was favorable, considering that more than half of them exclusively breastfed their child until the sixth month of life. Conclusion – Among the factors that contributed to the mothers giving up breastfeeding exclusively was having little milk, by medical advice, by choice, not having knowledge, not getting a correct attachment of the baby to the breast, pain when breastfeeding, weak milk.