Aleitamento materno exclusivo: no vivido das nutrizes de recémnascidos internados em unidade de terapia intensiva

Abstract

Breastfeeding is recognized as a priority of public health policy in reducing perinatal and infant mortality. However, despite programs encourage breastfeeding, its implementation occurs in Brazil substandard. It´s a descriptive qualitative study with phenomenological approach and aims at understanding the meaning of the use of exclusive breastfeeding to mothers who had their babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Data were collected from July 2011 to July 2012, through semistructured interviews with mothers. Observation was used to achieve or seek further the essence of the information regarding the phenomenon. In discourse analysis, four categories emerged: maternal instinct and common sense in breastfeeding, breastfeeding important act of love; Motivation to continue or abandon breastfeeding; Influences of (mis) understanding of information regarding breastfeeding. Results: The study revealed the suffering, the pain, the anguish and the frustration, feelings that can be minimized with rethinking the actions of health education individually recognizing the knowledge of the other, the world experienced by the other and from there build together a true education. Thus, making our effective work for an exclusive breastfeeding; decrease early weaning. From this understanding about the process of breastfeeding, some proposals have been drawn up in order to minimize the difficulties and increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding.