Purposes
this research aimed to identify and describe the doubts and difficulties of pregnant and postpartum women about breastfeeding, and compare them on the pregnancy period and postpartum period.
Methods
it is characterized by a cross-sectional, descriptive, comparative, composed of two groups: pregnant and postpartum women. There was the approval of the Ethics Committee in Research / Santa Casa under nº 23355. For collect it drafted a questionnaire with questions about breastfeeding. The variables were analyzed by associations between the answers of the groups using the Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact and Student’s t.
Results
the postpartum women had higher knowledge scores about breastfeeding compared to pregnant women (p = 0,001). By linking the age with the knowledge, the higher the postpartum women age the higher their percentage of knowledge (r = 0, 283, p = 0,011). By analyzing the primiparous mothers, we found that these were more complaints compared to those who already have one or more children (p = 0,014).
Conclusions
pregnant women, primiparous women and teenager girls have more doubts and difficulties in relation to breastfeeding. The care team must be prepared for the pregnant woman has the right to treat her breast awareness and breast feeding, reaching the puerperal period safer and encouraged for exclusive breastfeeding.
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Breast Feeding; Dentistry; Postpartum Period; Pregnancy
