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[Women's experiences in the late weaning of children]

S S Marcon1

  • 1Universidade Estadual de Maringá-PR.

The aim of this study is to present the processes, concepts and women's experiences during "late" weaning process because women's experiences on natural weaning aren't reports in the literature. It's a qualitative study which methodological approach is the Grounded Theory and the data collect method is Participating Observation. Data about 60 women were collected through two techniques: open interview and non-structured observation. Late weaning occurs in the absence of physical, physiological or social problems and contains an experience of five sub-processes: "Believing in an age limit", "Skepticism in the feeding power of mother's milk", "Being influenced", "Weaning with tranquility" and "Some difficulties in weaning".

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