[A brest-feeding study]

Malvina de Oliveira Ramos Netto1, Maria Jacyra de Campos Nogueira2, Eloisa Aparecida Guedes3

  • 1Professor Assistente da disciplina Enfermagem de Saúde Pública da EEUSP.

As an introduction the authors consider the advantages of breast-feeding, describing the social-economic causes which are influencing, the abandonment of this practice in the world. Following this they describe and comment on the results of a research project carried out with a group of mothers, which had as its objective to study some aspects relative to breast-feeding children.