EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING INCENTIVE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN INTHE POSTPARTUM PERIOD

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the psychic-emotional state from stories of women of the group of orientationand support of the Exclusive Breastfeeding Clinic in a maternity hospital in a city of the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil.Individual interviews with 32 mothers had been carried through in the first pediatric consultation, and during the discussiongroups developed monthly, we carried out the non participant observation technique. The study developed theaccompaniment of the mother-babies binomials during the 3 first months after birth. The results stand out the importancethat the group of multidiscipline orientation and support to exclusive breast-feeding has for the mothers and their families,characterizing itself as space of both affective and informative exchanges, a place to solve doubts, to share experiences,to build friendship bonds, providing better psychological and emotional conditions for women, children and their families.

Keywords

• Psychological phenomena and processes
• Postpartum period
• Breast feeding