As vivências da amamentação para um grupo de mulheres: nos limites de ser "o corpo para o filho" e de ser "o corpo para si"

Abstract

This study aims to understand the meanings ascribed by a group of women from Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State, to their experiences with breastfeeding in relation to the sensations and manifestations in their own bodies as well as those they perceive in their children. The phenomenon was viewed as integrated with value systems related to motherhood and the body. The research methodology was qualitative. Participants included twenty primiparous women who had given birth less than 30 days previously who came to primary health care clinics due to various complaints. The analysis of interviews and observations was based on the thematic modality of content analysis. For these women, breastfeeding means to be a good mother and to give the best of oneself to the child. In breastfeeding practice, among limits and possibilities, they measure what they consider a "problem" based on the perceived manifestations in their own bodies and especially in those of their children. Their concerns are based on harm and danger to which they expose the child. Such experiences play out at the limits of being: the body for the child and the body for oneself, thereby establishing a sharp conflict between motherhood and individuality.

O aleitamento materno na perspectiva da vulnerabilidade programática e do cuidado

“…Nesse cenário, a mãe que se sente sobrecarregada com os trabalhos domésticos tenta buscar as soluções dentro dos limites da demanda pessoal, desconsiderando outras possibilidades de lidar com a questão, como a redivisão das tarefas domésticas e maternas, rompendo, por exemplo, com a rigidez da divisão social dos papéis relacionada a gênero 18 . O julgamento da mulher, impelido pela visão do profissional de que o caminho da amamentação é o único possível de ser escolhido e percorrido, a induz a pensar que "o corpo materno se configura como responsável e culpado pelo 'mau jeito', colocando o 'corpo do filho em condição de prejuízos e perigos" 18 (p. S362).…”

Meanings attributed to breastfeeding in the first two years of life: a study with women from two municipalities in the Recôncavo Baiano region of Bahia, Brazil

“…Although breastfeeding is scientifically legitimated as being easy and pleasing, that all women are anatomically and physiologically capable of performing 24 , there are other aspects -such as meanings, beliefs and taboos in the individual and social maternal imagery -that conform to a network of signs that may affect this practice. Therefore, it is understood that these women's experiences with breastfeeding imply the involvement of many reasons and factors that do not depend exclusively on knowing about breastfeeding benefits and techniques, or on a previous decision 17,24 .…”

“…Therefore, it is understood that these women's experiences with breastfeeding imply the involvement of many reasons and factors that do not depend exclusively on knowing about breastfeeding benefits and techniques, or on a previous decision 17,24 . Therefore, these reasons and factors need to be considered for the technical and practical breastfeeding success.…”

Mães de recém-nascidos hospitalizados: em/entre círculos no processo de amamentação

“…Seus corpos concretizam-se como corpo-função. Em caso de problemas, concebe-se que a mãe é culpada e responsável pelos possíveis prejuízos ao corpo do filho (22) .…”

“…Uma das mães chegou a mencionar que "como o médico disse, vai ser o remédio da criança..." (Mãe I). Demonstrou-se, assim, que a afirmação do desejo idealizado de amamentar encontra-se, subliminarmente, associada ao fato de dar o melhor de si para seu filho, com respaldo do discurso e das práticas de saúde, oficialmente instituídas (22) .…”