<br />ALEITAMENTO MATERNO: FATORES QUE CONTRIBUEM PARA O ABANDONO PRECOCE<br />

Abstract

Breast milk is a natural, complete, dynamic nutrition with numerous nutritional, immu-nological emotional benefits. Objective : Identify what factors can contribute to the early abandonment of breastfeed-ing. Methods: Systematic Literature review with research carried out on the B-on EBSCO platforms, using the descriptors in Health Sciences in the English language: Breastfeed-ing, mothers weaning, the research carried out using the intersection between them through the Boolean operator and . Based on the limiters, defined inclusion exclusion criteria, seven articles were selected. Outcomes: the analyzed articles demonstrate that exist several factors that influence early weaning, can be organized into categories: maternal factors, highlighting the hypogalactia sensation problems such as pain, fissures or mastitis; factors related to the newborn/infant like the difficulty of adaptation to the breast introduction of artificial milk social factors such as return to work. Conclusions: Several studies represent different social cultural contexts, but some factors identified as hypogalactia sensation, pain, fissures, mastitis difficulty in technique are common among them. Nursing interventions can be decisive for maintenance of breastfeeding. Keywords: Breastfeeding; mothers; weaning.