title: [Influence of the different types of room on newborns during breastfeeding].
abstract: The present study was developed in the CMSCVL, which is a primary medical attendment clinic for children and pregnant women, during the period of 01/10/1980 to 31/12/1984, containing 132 children. The study was longitudinal and respective and the two distinct groups of children may be established, differing in accordance to the hospital stay period of postpartum, in rooming-in or traditional nursery. After the statistic analysis of all the variables involved in the study, the only variable that really resulted was the site of internation during the postpartum period. Although these exist a tendency to the greater frequency of breast feeding in the group that utilized the rooming-in, the statistics analysis showed that this difference is not significant. However should consider the important paper carried out by the CMSCVL, in the encouragement of the practice of the breast-feeding, what may have homogenized the two groups. The medium time of weaning found for the population of 132 children studied was 8 months, while for those children that utilized the rooming-in is system was 10 months and for those that stayed in the traditional nursery it took 9 months. The motives of weaning were also identified for the studied population that showed similarity to other published projects.
authors.affiliation: Mestre em Pediatria da FMRP-USP.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Del Ciampo
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Ricco
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muccillo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Betiol
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Daneluzzi