Madres que optan por la lactancia materna prolongada: experiencia y activos en salud: proyecto de investigación
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Introduction: Breast milk is the optimal natural food for the newborn, providing
all the nutrients needed for growth and development, as well as numerous
benefits for both mother and newborn. Guided by this reason, many mothers
choose to prolong breastfeeding for a period of one year or more, sometimes
resulting in different situations that cause mothers to live the experience in one
way or another. As a support to prolonged breastfeeding, there are different
health assets that mothers can use and thus achieve satisfactory experiences
during at this stage. In addition, the nurse is one of the health professionals who
accompany, care for, teach and help these mothers being an important factor in
a society where prolonged breastfeeding and especially in public, presents
prejudices and stereotypes. Objective: To study the experiences of mothers
who opt for prolonged breastfeeding in the territory of Marina Baixa (Alicante).
Methodology: Observational, descriptive and transversal study to be carried
out between 1 July 2021 and 31 May 2022 using qualitative methodology. The
population are mothers who have given or are currently giving breastfeeding to
a baby in a period of one year or more in the last five years, selected through a
consecutive sampling and who are users in the nine Marina Baixa health
centres chosen. The in-depth interview and questionnaire will be used as
instruments to collect the data and the results will be analysed by means of a
transcription, configuration of categories and a selective coding using the
triangulation of researchers. In the case of the variables obtained in from the
questionnaire, will be use a descriptive analysis. This study has direct
implications for nurses: the results will increase knowledge about long-term
breastfeeding whith the aim of proposing nursing interventions to promote it,
thus increasing the health of children and their mothers