O cuidado com a alimentação de crianças menores de um ano na perspectiva materna / The care of food in children less than one year old in maternal perspective.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In the first year of life, the care with child is vital importance due to the phenomenon of growth / development and its dependence. In this context, a vital factor among their basic needs is the nutrition. Offer the child food than breast milk before the sixth month of life is generally unnecessary and can leave the child more susceptible to diarrhea, respiratory infections and malnutrition. However, the late introduction of foods no milk in infant feeding scheme leads to the emergence of growth retardation, and nutritional deficiencies. The Ministry of Health and the OMS recommend exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age and supply of milk up to two years old. The purpose of this study was examining the care of maternal nutrition in children less than one year old, considering the profile of the food offered by mothers and understanding that they do care for these children. This is a descriptive and exploratory study, based on quantitative and qualitative data. It is part of a multicentric project entitled "Iron deficiency in children between 3 to 12 months: understanding determinants of biological, social and their implications for the encouragement of exclusive breastfeeding". It was done in the Ambulatory Unit of the District Health Dr. Marco Antonio Sahão in the city of Ribeirão Preto-SP and formed by 122 mothers. The data were collected through an interview and adapted after the signature of the Free and Informed Consent Term. The figures quantitative were analyzed in SPSS (version 11.5), holding up a simple distribution of frequency. The content of the interviews was categorized based on technical analysis of content, thematic way. It was observed that 5.7% received AME, 10.6% were in AMP and 47.5% in AM. The other 44 were weaned or never breastfeeding. Of the 70 children under 6 months, 82.8% were using water / tea, 61.4% contained fruit in their diet, 32,8% consumed vegetables, 7.2% vegetables and a small percentage of meat and meat broth . When we analyses children older than 6 months, age at which recommends the introduction of supplementary feeding, identified the reduced consumption of vegetables (55.8%), meat (65.4%) and beans (32.7%). As for the qualitative analysis on the first thematic category, we identified the following clusters of meaning: the child as the centre of attention, provide the child of their needs; nutrition as an area of maternal presence. In the second thematic category, meaning the food, deduct two clusters of meaning: the good food is what sustains the child, the good food is what has vitamins. In the third thematic category, the meaning of food, there were identified four clusters of meaning: does the child stay healthy and develop, the child needs to eat well and everything, is a part of the process of life she learns to eat; adapting the child to the familys food and the familys food of the child. Both women and health care professionals need further instrumentation on complementary feeding and food guides that while representing an important tool in nutritional education, require adjustments they consider not only children in breastfeeding but also the specific features that occur in food child. Its important to consider the woman as the agent of care in infant feeding and it provides the support needs to the conduct of feeding practices that meet the recommendations for a timely and appropriate complementary feeding.

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alimentação infantil alimentação complementar complementary feeding saúde materna - infantil infant feeding health mother - infant

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