Benefícios do aleitamento materno exclusivo até os 6 meses para a saúde da criança e da mãe

Abstract

This study it was carried through by bibliographic research narrative, using basically documents of government organs, books and articles in Portuguese, available in the Internet, having as object to compile scientific studies on the benefits of breastfeeding for the child, the mother and the mother/child. This review shows that breastfeeding should be emphatically be recommended as exclusive food source the first six months of life of the child , because it has the advantages of some orders: nutritional, immunological, psychological and economic. Maternal milk is a fluid extremely complex that contains not only nutrients in quantities adjusted the nutritional needs and the capacity digestive and metabolic of the child, but also protective factors and bioactive substances which guarantee their health, and their growth and development. Maternal milk reduces in significant way the infantile indices of mortality and prevents a series of illnesses, as much for the child how much for the mother. The advantages of breast-feeding for the child are already well established and documented; in relation to mothers the literature is more scarce, but shows that the benefits are provided to the satisfaction of the mother with the act of breast-feeding up to the prevention of breast cancer and ovarian cancer, of hemorrhages postpartum and osteoporosis, as well as their performance as contraceptives. For the binomial mother/son is crucial especially in the establishment of mother and son. It should be noted that health professionals need to be trained to act with mothers on the task to support and encourage breast-feeding.