title: [Women's experiences in the late weaning of children].
abstract: The aim of this study is to present the processes, concepts and women's experiences during "late" weaning process because women's experiences on natural weaning aren't reports in the literature. It's a qualitative study which methodological approach is the Grounded Theory and the data collect method is Participating Observation. Data about 60 women were collected through two techniques: open interview and non-structured observation. Late weaning occurs in the absence of physical, physiological or social problems and contains an experience of five sub-processes: "Believing in an age limit", "Skepticism in the feeding power of mother's milk", "Being influenced", "Weaning with tranquility" and "Some difficulties in weaning".
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá-PR.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Marcon
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014886:Weaning