PURPOSE: to analyze breastfeeding in rooming-in babies, identify and analyze the difficulties in the beginning of breastfeeding. METHODS: descriptive transverse study. The sample was made up by 100 mother/new-born binomials, in public maternity hospitals that offer high-risk parturition service. Using a United Nations Children’s Fund’s protocol to watch and evaluate the sucking, the behavior of the double was recorded, calculating the periodicity of behavious that are unfavourable to the exclusive breastfeeding. Above that, data was collected at baby’s handbook and a questionnaire was applied with the mothers during the time of rooming-in internment. RESULTS: the Binominal's frequency, that showed behavious suggesting sever serious difficulties (low score) at the beginning of the breastfeeding, varied between 16% and 44%, according to the aspect of the evaluated sucking. The most common difficulties were the fitness to the sucking, the bad position of mothers and babies bodies during the sucking and the aspect of the breasts’ anatomy. These problems were more important when the parturition was surgical (p<0.05) and the mother did not received any guidance about breastfeeding (p<0.05). Conclusions: high prevalence of the binomials mother/new-born with suggestive behavior of difficulties was identified. We noted the need for a previous instructive job with the mothers as early as possible, so that they may acquire a correct breastfeeding technique.
Rooming-in Care; Breast Feeding; Maternal Behavior
