Amamantamientosentimientos y vivencias experimentados por la madre

Laburpena

The safety, protection and emotional regulation are very important in the construction of the mother-baby relation. The individual counseling during the postpartum period must be provided by health professionals trained to enable them to actively identify and resolve the difficulties and needs of each one of them. This study followed the quantitative methodology, of descriptive nature, and where the application of interviews was proceeded, participant observation and questionnaires, we tried to answer the big question that guides all of the research: What are the experiences and feelings experienced by mothers in relation to the baby during breastfeeding? It had as objectives: to describe the experiences and feelings experienced by mothers in relation to the baby during breastfeeding, to understand the fantasy content, anxieties, fears and fantasies that emerge in the mother in relation to the baby during breastfeeding. Developed initially during the period of March to August 2009, a sample of 793 mother-infant dyads from the Obstetrics Service, Hospital Santo André, Leiria EPE, selected for convenience during the maternity stay in hospital, where they found 44 mothers with a history of mood disorder and anxiety disorder which were the subject of further intervention at 4 months postpartum. We may conclude that great difficulty was detected in the observations in mothers to establish a relationship that meets the needs and demands of the baby (13% ignore the requests) and most of them state fear the inability to take good care of the baby. And in the inpatient mothers' interviews they verbalized anxieties and fears and feelings. Comparing the data obtained in two moments, when mothers were in hospital, they made a more positive assessment of breastfeeding, the level of lifestyle and body image than at the baby's 4 months of age. The maternal affection that mothers show at 4 months of age of the baby is not significantly influenced by the evaluation of breast-feeding or self-esteem that evidence in the hospital.