title: [Revisiting early weaning through history].
abstract: The basic action of health requests addressed strategy as taking consciousness to the importance of the breastfeeding. The breastfeeding history shows a hiatus as the people worked with precocious wean. The aim of this study was revisit precocious wean through historical breastfeeding clipping. Bibliographical revision methodology was used. The samples consisted by books, monographs, thesis, dissertations, texts published in scientific magazines were consulted and scientific article was captured through Internet in the period from 1978 to 1998, that portray histories from mythological time to the most current centuries. The revision pointed that weans is built partner-culturally. The woman to maintain the maternal breast-feeding needs not only support family and social but also government support.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, da Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: Sueli Mutsumi Tsukuda
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ichisato
authors.forename: Antonieta Keiko Kakuda
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Shimo
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D013997:Time Factors; D014886:Weaning