Desmame precoce: causas e consequências na vida do lactente: revisão de literatura

Abstract

Breast milk is considered the ideal food for babies as it meets all their nutritional and physiological needs, reducing morbidity and mortality in the first phase of life. Although daily scientific studies prove its effectiveness, only 39% of babies up to six months are exclusively breastfed worldwide. The interruption of EBF within the first 6 months of the baby's life is pointed out as the concept of early weaning. Identify the factors that influence the occurrence of early weaning. The present work can be defined as a systematic literature review. For the execution of the work, searches were carried out for original scientific articles and books on breastfeeding, breastfeeding, breast milk, human milk and early weaning. Of the 61 articles used in the construction of the work, 13.11% had outcomes that demonstrate relevance for responding to the general and specific objective, both established at its beginning. By analyzing the studies, it is possible to say that early weaning is still prevalent and may be caused by several factors that are closely linked to the breastfeeding woman. The present work, through the scientific bias, finds that several factors contribute to the occurrence of the interruption of exclusive breastfeeding, causing the infant to wean early.