title: [The influence of the "Friend of Children Hospital" campaign on breast-feeding].
abstract: The paper investigates the awareness of women who gave birth in a 'Friend of Children' Hospital (FCH) of the influence of this campaign on their decision to breast-feed. We conducted semi-structured interviews, focusing the maternal breast-feeding process, expectations, experiences, and the importance of the health staff. The data analysis was based on the "Ten Steps to Successful Maternal Breast-Feeding." We found out that in situations regarded by women as problematic and lacking in answers that could attenuate their discomfort and suffering in the face of their desire to breast-feed, they stopped breast-feeding. We believe that by maintaining the FCH support to women (so that they can face those difficulties), its influence can be decisive to the continuation of breast-feeding.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem da Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. vlunardi@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Valéria Lerch
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Lunardi
authors.forename: Michele Salum
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Bulhosa
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D003662:Decision Theory; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D026684:Personal Autonomy