Mães adolescentes: estudo das vivências de amamentação dos seus filhos

• Autor(a) principal: Durhand, Silvina Beatriz
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8725
• topic: Breastfeeding; Teenage; Teenage mothers; Aleitamento materno; Adolescência; Mães adolescentes; Aleitamento materno Psicologia; Adolescência; Mães adolescentes; Lactentes Nutrição; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA::SAUDE MATERNO-INFANTIL

Along the present study we analyze breastfeeding from the point of view of a group of low income teenage breastfeeding mothers, living in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Our aim was to understand how these women experienced breastfeeding and to identify factors that contributed in the construction of such experiences. We assumed that teenage mothers felt their role as breast-feeders as an everyday activity, where persistence or preclusion depend on factors established both by culture and Nature. This qualitative research was carried out on a group of 12 teenage mothers, between 15 and 19 years old, that were breastfeeding during the first three months after delivered. The interviews were analyzed based on content analysis technique, thematic nodes and interpreted following Qualitative Health Research Theory. For these women, the essence of breastfeeding practice is built around their concerns regarding successful/failure breastfeeding and their tasks perceived as teenage mothers. They express their worries in terms of being able to produce both qualitative and quantitatively enough milk, having breasts able of breastfeed and being capable to establish an effective latch-on. In addition, they show concerns of being responsible and breastfeed even when tired or harmed, always thinking about their sons well-being and accepting the changes on their bodies perceived due to motherhood and breastfeeding. Teenage women reassure breastfeeding as a socio-historical practice. The health care provider and the teenager s significant others were emphasized as breastfeeding counsellors and main breastfeeding support network. The outcome of this study raises some question regarding our role as breastfeeding promoters for teenage mothers.