title: [Breast-feeding experience for women workers and students from a public university].
abstract: This qualitative research aimed to know the main interfering elements in the breast-feeding process as experienced by professional women and by students, that was carried out with 65 professional women and students from a public university in São Paulo state. The data collection was proceeded by interviews which contents were analyzed according to Taylor and Bogdan and Symbolic Interactionism approaches. Results indicated that the breast-feeding process for these women demonstrated to be conditioned and highlighted by the conditions the women encounter in their domestic, professional, and study settings. The physical setting and the relations among their relatives, superiors and peers exerts a strong influence on their determination to keep on breastfeeding.
authors: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-infantil e Psiquiàtrica da Escola de Enfermagem da USP.
authors: Isilia Aparecida
authors: IA
authors: Silva