Feeding newborns after hospital discharge from a Baby-Friendly Health Care Institution

• Autor(a) principal: Vivancos,Raquel Bosquim Zavanella
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Leite,Adriana Moraes, Furtado,Maria Cândida de Carvalho, Góes,Fernanda dos Santos Nogueira de, Haas,Vanderlei José, Scochi,Carmen Gracinda Silvan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-21002008000300009
• topic: Breast feeding; Weaning; Baby-friendly hospital initiative

OBJECTIVE: To characterize how babies are fed during their hospital stay and after hospital discharge from a Baby-Friendly Health Care Institution, using indicators proposed by the World Health Organization. METHODS: This investigation was performed 30 days after the binomial's discharge, through a telephone interview with the puerperal woman. Data from medical records constituted secondary sources of information. RESULTS: It was observed that, even though newborns had come from these institutions, some of them were weaned early from breastfeeding. CONCLUSION: Some factors were shown to be associated to weaning in the studied sample, such as the small percentage of binomials placed in skin-to-skin contact and early suction, mothers who smoked, the use of pacifiers and the use of dairy complements during the hospital stay.