Conocimientos y creencias sobre lactancia materna y lactancia materna exclusiva en mujeres

Abstract

Abstract: Breastfeeding is the basis for the development of all children around the world. This activity is carried out as a natural process that occurs from generation to generation, In this way, the knowledge and beliefs that women acquire about breastfeeding maternal are inherited and put into practice which determines the effectiveness of the feeding children in all countries. Breastfeeding rates are worrying breast milk, only 4 out of every 10 children in Ecuador are fed breast milk until their first 3 months of life. There are many situations that mothers go through that cause the cessation of breastfeeding and are directly influenced by the erroneous knowledge of this. This work was developed to establish the knowledge and beliefs about women's breastfeeding and relate them to the alarming rates of breastfeeding in our country. The review process is detailed of the literature in different databases such as PubMed, SciELO, TripDataBase and WebOfScience, the results of this research work describe the knowledge found on breastfeeding of mothers found in research cross-sectional studies carried out with samples of women in different scenarios that were are breastfeeding or have gone through this process. I hope that this work be useful when explaining the problems regarding nutrition and child development and about improving practice in our Ecuador.