Desvelando as vivências de doadoras de um Banco de Leite Humano.

Abstract

The Human Milk is the unique natural food, necessary to the completely growth and development of the newborn until six months of life. Therefore, the service realized by the human Milk Bank, is of the extreme importance for several children in special situations, in which their mothers do not have conditions to produce and/ or offer them this food. With the objective of understanding the experience of the Human Milk Bank donors in the city Cajazeiras - PB. For both, became necessary to describe their socio-demographic profile; examine their motives of the choosing to become a donor; know the assistance offered to deponents in the process of donating maternal milk and identify the facilities and difficulties for donation. Therefore is characterize as an exploratory and descriptive study, qualitative approach, developed in a Human Milk Bank in the city of Cajazeiras - Paraiba and/or in the residencies of 20 donors through an interview guide with semi-structured questions, which were answered in the months of January and February 2013, after signing consent term. The results were compiled and organized by the technique of content analysis and analyzed according to the literature. The research followed the Resolution 196/96 of the National Health. Most of them were single donors, with secondary highschool incomplete, low family income and were in the age group 17-40 years old. The principal motive of the choosing to become donor was the desire to help others, however, the majority was not aware of the services offered by the Bank of Milk, being influenced by the professionals of the institution and sensitized by the experience with other mothers, which for specific reasons, could not feed your child. Most praised the service provided by the professionals, but emerged some criticisms and responses unsafe. Despite of the facilities found in the service, there were reports of personal difficulties for the donation as, for example, diseases, pain in the hands by the action of weaning and the presence of mastitis. Despite the approval and recognition, by the nursing mothers, of the services offered by the institution,the human milk donated is still low, because despite increased of the donors, is still not enough for the demand of the city. It is necessary to continue actions aimed at attracting new donors, as a way to encourage breastfeeding.