Vivências de amamentação da criança portuguesa em idade escolar

Abstract

RESUMOEstudo descriti vo e transversal, uti lizando um questi onário, com 1.078 crianças entre 7 e 12 anos de idade, dos terceiros e quartos anos do primeiro ciclo do ensino básico, de escolas públicas, para estudar as vivências de amamentação. A maioria delas, 918 (85,2%), sabia que ti nha sido amamentada e 895 (83,0%) usaram chupeta. Um pequeno número viu a mãe amamentar e presenciou o pai junto da mãe quando amamentava ou respondeu que na escola os enfermeiros passaram algum conteúdo sobre amamentação. Além disso, a maioria das meninas não brincava de amamentar suas bonecas e 771 (71,5%) crianças disseram que esses brinquedos ti nham mamadeira, e outras, chupetas, sendo que nas brincadeiras fi ngiam alimentar as bonecas com a mamadeira. Elas dizem que gostariam de amamentar, mas que teriam vergonha de fazê-lo em público. Os livros e desenhos animados com que estas crianças têm contato não apresentam fi guras de mulheres amamentando. Grande número das crianças considera o leite materno como o melhor alimento para o bebê, mas verifi cou-se a presença de falsos conceitos e que nem todos sabiam o que era amamentar. DESCRITORESAleitamento materno Criança Conhecimento Ati tude Promoção da Saúde. Portuguese school children breastfeeding experiences ORIGINAL ARTICLE ABSTRACTDescripti ve cross-secti onal study on breastfeeding experiences, using a questi onnaire with 1078 children aged between 7 and 12 years, in the 3 rd and 4 th years of primary educati on in public schools. Most children knew that they and their siblings had been breastf ed and had used a pacifi er. Few had seen their mother breastf eeding, seen their father close to their mother while breastf eeding their siblings, or reported that nurses in the school had talked to them about breastf eeding. Furthermore, when playing with their dolls, most girls did not pretend to breastf eed, and 771 (71.5%) reported their dolls had bott les, or pacifiers, and pretended to feed their dolls with a bott le. They say they would enjoy breastfeeding, but where embarrassed of doing that in public. The books and cartoons that these children usually read and watch do not show women breastf eeding. Many children consider breast milk to be the best food for the baby, but they have several misconcepti ons, and not all the children knew what breastf eeding was. DESCRIPTORSBreast feeding Child Knowledge Atti tude Health Promoti on RESUMENEstudio descripti vo transversal, uti lizando cuesti onario, con 1.078 niños de 7 a 12 años, de 3º y 4º grado de Enseñanza Primaria de escuelas públicas, estudiándose experiencias de amamantamiento. La mayoría, 918 (85,2%) recordaba su amamantamiento; 895 (83%) uti lizaron chupete. Unos pocos vieron a su madre amamantar, percibiendo la presencia paterna; o refi rió que los enfermeros en la escuela exhibieron contenidos acerca del amamantamiento. Asimismo, la mayoría de las niñas no jugaba a amamantar a sus muñe-cas, 771 niños (71,5%) refi rieron que tales juguetes poseían mamaderas o chupetes, siendo que los juegos consistí an en fi ngir alim...

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“…Even students with positive attitudes towards breastfeeding can lack specific knowledge of breastfeeding and infant feeding recommendations [8, 9, 22, 25, 29, 30, 32–37]. Many students know that breastfeeding has health benefits for babies [9–11, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36, 38]; however, most children are not aware of the specific benefits of breastfeeding for the infant or for the mother [8–11, 22, 33, 34, 36, 39]. Furthermore, students have misconceptions that breastfeeding can have a negative impact on the mother’s health and lifestyle [9, 10, 33].…”

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