Prática da amamentação analisada sob a influência da assistência de enfermagem no puerpério imediato.

Abstract

The healthcare professionals have positive attitudes towards the act of breastfeeding, but they often are not experiencing each moment of the woman in the lactation process, which can trigger the premature weaning (PW). This study had the overall goal; to understand the practice of the nurse, such as social support in relation to breastfeeding in the city of Cajazeiras - PB, and specific goals: to investigate how nurses promote, encourage and support the breastfeeding during the nursing assistance in the period of puerperal gestation and to identity the occurrence / approach of home visits by nurses to women in the immediate postpartum period. It is about an exploratory research with a qualitative approach, held in November 2011. The study participants were 16 women who had children in the first semester of 2011. The data collection instrument was structured guide containing objective and subjective questions. The information for the socio-demographic features and obstetric were shown on table with frequency. The qualitative data which reveal the opinion of the postpartum were analyzed through the traditional thematic way and discussed in light of the literature pertinent to the subject. The results show that with regard to the incentive to the practice of exclusive breastfeeding by nursing professionals, it was noted that this contribution was not satisfactory, since the participants women reported that they were suffering and there was nobody to support them, they eventually abandoned breastfeeding. It is necessary the implementation of actions to encourage the breastfeeding in Basic Health Unit in order to contribute to the decrease of the rate of premature weaning. As observed in the present study, the nursing care provided to mothers who are in the process of breastfeeding is insufficient to ensure an appropriate practice of breastfeeding. We aim, then hat there is an awareness of healthcare professionals, specially nurses, about this issue, seeking new actions in order to achieve what is recommended by the Ministry of Health about the breastfeeding.