Fatores associados ao início da amamentação em uma cidade do sul do Brasil

Abstract

The mother s milk offers several advantages and benefits for the baby as for the mother and also for the society because it reduces the infant morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. The period elapsed between the birth and the first breastfed have showed a positive association with high breastfeeding indicatives. The maternal, maternity and newly baby characteristics have influence on the beginning of breastfeeding. This study was carried out to trace the profile of the maternity s patients in Pelotas and to relate the characteristics of the mothers, of the babies and maternities with the beginning of breastfeeding. Were interviewed 2741 mothers. The beginning of the breastfeeding in the first time was inversely associated with: age, maternal education and family income evidencing a dose-response effect. The mothers that had a baby for caesarean section had a twice risk of not breastfeed in the first hour of the baby s life (p < 0.001). To be born at the only hospital of the city that adopted the Baby Friendly Hospital Iniciative increased meaningful the breastfeeding in the first hour