Objective To evaluate the influence of grandmothers of infants on exclusive breastfeeding, from their perspective.Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with 91 women from a hospital in the inland state of São Paulo. By means of a questionnaire, the following data were collected: sociodemographic data of the grandmother, mother and child; duration of exclusive breastfeeding of daughter or daughter-in-law; information on kinship of participant and grandchild; kind of help provided by grandmother; and knowledge about breastfeeding.Results The prevalence of infants on exclusive breastfeeding at two months was 35.17%; a total of 67.3% of grandmothers considered it important to give food to babies before six months of life, and 54% considered relevant breastfeeding at regular intervals. Moreover, 40% believed in weak milk and were not aware of signs of sufficient breast milk. Of the grandmothers interviewed, 69% had already offered tea and water to their grandchildren. In the univariate analysis, the maternal grandmother was more involved and close to the pair mother and child.Conclusion The presence of grandmothers influences in exclusive breastfeeding.

A interferência das avós no aleitamento Artigo Original Patricia Helena Breno Queiroz (1) Maria de Lurdes Zanolli (2) Roberto Teixeira Mendes (2) 1) Faculdade de Jaguariúna-FAJ-Jaguariúna (SP)-Brasil

Despite the existence of programmes to encourage breastfeeding and studies that show its superiority, still occurs the maintenance of high rates of early weaning, leading to believe that the proposals of official encouragement and support of breastfeeding may not be compatible with reality . Scholars say that the training of professionals in promoting breastfeeding can change significantly in increasing rates of breastfeeding. Thus the objective of this study was the participation of nurses from the core network of health care from the council of Americana -SP, in activities to promote the breastfeeding, through an exploratory study of character-descriptive nature of quantitative and qualitative. Data collection was performed by means of semi-structured interviews, recorded, with all the nurses of basic health care units.Where, 90.5% are female, all concursadas and 61.9% residents in the city. Only 19% have children, these 100% breastfed. The predominant age group is 22 to 30 years of age corresponding to an absolute majority (88.8%). The analysis of data was done through analysis of the thematic content of texts from the transcript of the interviews. After extensive reading of the text, emerged several units of record that have been grouped in clusters of meaning resulting in two thematic categories: "the nurses and lactation" and "other people and breastfeeding." The words show that the nurses carry out actions to promote breast-feeding, few have personal experience with breastfeeding and socio economic situation liable to the user and their social network as factors triggering the early weaning. It is proposed to the council studied the training of health professionals to occur more involved as team; deployment of institutional protocol scovering all units to exploit the potential existing in the current conditions of the core network thus creating a better performance of the same in the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding.

RESUMO: Este artigo descreve aspectos sociodemográficos de adolescentes grávidas atendidas em um serviço de saúde na região metropolitana de Campinas-SP e de suas mães ou sogras. Estudo de corte transversal descritivo, com coleta prospectiva dos dados, realizada com 25 adolescentes primigestas e 25 futuras avós dos bebês, que no último trimestre de gestação concederam entrevistas orientadas com questões para a caracterização das entrevistadas. Investigar o padrão demográfico dessas adolescentes e suas mães ou sogras foi importante para o desenvolvimento de intervenções e políticas públicas mais adequadas e direcionadas às necessidades dessa parcela da população. Palavras-Chaves: Adolescentes, Relação entre gerações, Organização Familiar.ABSTRACT: This article describes sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant adolescents attending a health service in the metropolitan region of Campinas-SP and their mothers or mothers-in-law. Descriptive cross-sectional study, with prospective data collection, carried out with 25 primiparous adolescents and 25 future grandmothers, in the last trimester of pregnancy granted oriented interviews with questions for the characterization of the interviewees. To investigate the demographic pattern of these adolescents and their mothers or mothers-in-law was important to develop appropriate interventions and public policies and targeted to the needs of this segment of the population. Keys words: Adolescent, Intergenerational Relations, Family Organization. IntroduçãoEstudos sobre a família são foco de extensas pesquisas, em diferentes áreas do conhecimento, sob diversos contextos e inúmeros propósitos. Assim são muitas as maneiras de se investigar as famílias, tendo cada uma delas formas distintas de conceituar e tratar os relacionamentos familiares.