Promoçaõ e incentivo ao aleitamento materno: orientações pra equipes de saúde da família

Abstract

The low prevalence of breastfeeding in Brazil reveals that weaning is influenced by factors that make essential the family health teams performance through strategies to promote breastfeeding. The low prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding was also established in the city of Ressaquinha-MG. With the objective of proposing a support guide for the promotion of breastfeeding to primary health care professionals, a bibliographic review was carried out using the database of the Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (Virtual Health Library) and the following keywords: descriptors: weaning, maternal and child health and primary care. Also researched, using search engines, were government strategies aimed at promoting childrens health, especially breastfeeding. The search for references about the problems of weaning resulted in the selection of important strategies for the promotion and encouragement of breastfeeding, such as: Unidade Básica Amiga da Criança (Primary Health Care Center Friend of the Children), Dez Passos Para o Sucesso da Amamentação (Ten Steps to the Success of Breastfeeding), Protocolo de Observação da Mamada (Protocol to watch and evaluate the sucking - UNICEF), among others, that were used for the composition of actions and strategies for the preparation of an orientation guide for the Equipe de Saúde da Família Amigos da Saúde from the city of Ressaquinha-MG. It is hoped that the guide helps health care professionals to evaluate the problem of weaning and intervene through the systemization of the proposed actions and team training. It was also found that to promote breastfeeding it is important to work on the factors of weaning beyond the biological and technical ones.