Breastfeeding and the weight-height development of the infant until the sixth month of life

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.2021v42n2p179

Keywords:

Breastfeeding, Artificial feeding, Early weaning, Growth, Infant

Abstract

Objective: compare the weight-height growth of the infants at six months of life in exclusive breastfeeding and complementary or mixed breastfeeding.
Method: transversal study, with 38 mothers and infants between the fifth and the sixty months of life, whose data collect occurred in primary health care units of a city in the West of the state of Paraná, Brazil. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics.
Results
: the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding was of 21% (n=8) of the sample. The anthropometrics variables (weight, height and head circumference - HC) of the infants in exclusive breastfeeding show lower averages to those in predominant breastfeeding and/or with use of formula.
Conclusion: the weight-height growth of the infants at six months of life in exclusive breastfeeding and in complementary or mixed breastfeeding was inside of the expected for age. However, was evidenced low prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding.

Author Biographies

Cláudia Silveira Viera, Universidade estadual do oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

Doctorate in Public Health Nursing from the Universidade de São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing (EERP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Professor of the Nursing Course (Child and Adolescent Health Area) at the Universidade estadual do oeste do Parana - Unioeste

Luana Cecília Rocha, Universidade estadual do oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

Student in Nursing at the Universidade estadual do oeste do Parana - Unioeste

Marialda Christoffel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ

Doctorate in Human Group Health, Child and Adolescent Health from the Anna Nery School of Nursing (EEAN), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professor of the Nursing Course at the Anna Nery School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Beatriz Rosana Gonçalves de Oliveira Toso, Universidade estadual do oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

Doctorate in Public Health Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Professor of the Nursing Course (Child and Adolescent Health Area) at the Universidade estadual do oeste do Parana - Unioeste

Janaine Fragnan Peres, Consórcio Intermunicipal de Saúde do Oeste do Paraná (CISOP)

Master's Degree in Biosciences and Health from the Universidade estadual do oeste do Parana - Unioeste, Cascavel, Paraná. Nurse at the Intermunicipal Health Consortium of West Paraná (Cisop), Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil.

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Published

2021-09-28

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Viera CS, Rocha LC, Christoffel M, Toso BRG de O, Peres JF. Breastfeeding and the weight-height development of the infant until the sixth month of life. Semin. Cienc. Biol. Saude [Internet]. 2021 Sep. 28 [cited 2024 Aug. 24];42(2):179-86. Available from: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/seminabio/article/view/41863

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