CONHECIMENTOS, PRÁTICAS E TABUS SOBRE ALEITAMENTO MATERNO DE MÃES NO MUNICÍPIO DE MARABÁ, PARÁ

• Autor(a) principal: TRIGO, Marlene
• Data de Publicação: 1990
• Outros Autores: RONCADA, Maria José, Teixeira Bicudo PEREIRA, Isabel Maria, Telles de Menezes STEWIEN, Glacilda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9946
• topic: food taboo; lactation; breast-feedíng; tabu alimentar; lactação; aleitamento materno

This paper has checked some practices, knowledge and taboos about breast-feeding of 112 mothers living in Marabá, Pará, Brazil. Women were inteNiewed about their know/edge on the t}lpe of milk more suitab/e to babies, the actual and ideal duration of breast-feedíng, as we/1 as the existence of taboos duríng lactatíon. Although powdered whole cow's milk was indicated as the best for chíldren, most mothers said that breast-feedíng was good. Two thirds of them breast-fed theír chi/dren for over six months and the actual period of breast-feeding was longer than what they considered ideal. About 78% of mothers referred food taboos  whíle  nursing,  most of  which were  restrictions to those of animal origin. The need for developing educational activíties regarding nutritíon during pre-natal care is emphasízed in order to prevent í/1 health to mothers and their chíldren.