[Constructing the meaning of breast feeding through nursing care]

From the referential of Symbolic Interactionism and Dada Based Theory we have searched to achieve the objectives of comprehending the meaning, attributed by the nursing student to breastfeeding and to nursing interventions in this process. The study was accomplished with graduation students from Sao Paulo University (USP) Nursing School. The study results show that the student experience his relation to breastfeeding and to his learning process in assisting the nutrice and her child expressed by two themes: BUILDING UP A VIEW OVER BREASTFEEDING and BUILDING UP ASSISTANCE TO BREASTFEEDING. These themes portrait students' conceptual and technical evolutive process about breastfeeding assistance and their perception of being a nurse, attributing meanings to their performance in the process that is experienced by woman and her child.