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. 2008 Jul-Aug;61(4):488-92.
doi: 10.1590/s0034-71672008000400015.

[Brastfeeding: factors that cause early weaning]

[Article in Portuguese]
Olívia Dias de Araújo  1 , Adélia Leana da Cunha, Lidiana Rocha Lustosa, Inez Sampaio Nery, Rita de Cássia Magalhães Mendonça, Sônia Maria de Araújo Campelo
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[Brastfeeding: factors that cause early weaning]

[Article in Portuguese]
Olívia Dias de Araújo et al. Rev Bras Enferm. 2008 Jul-Aug.
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Abstract

This study aimed to identify the reasons which made mothers wean their children early and analyze their knowledge on breastfeeding. It is about a research of qualitative approach and was developed in Teresina-Pi, with 11(eleven) mothers, aged between 18 and 43 years old, who weaned early. The reports of the subjects, from the semi-structured interview, enabled the emergence of two categories: Understanding on breastfeeding and Factors that led to early weaning. The analyses showed that the factors which led to early weaning were: mother's illness that damaged the breastfeeding; medicines used by them and the feeding of the infants with another kind of food. It also put in evidence that the knowledge on breastfeeding is based on a strongly biomedical health-disease speech.

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