Knowledge of pregnant women living in riverside community about exclusive breastfeeding in the context of Primary Health Care.
Gabriela Tayane Santana do Espirito Santo, Jennifer Hillary Costa da Conceição Pompeu, Paulo Daniel Pereira Raad and 5 others
PMID 40548851WHAT IT FOUND
Pregnant women said nurse guidance helped them understand breastfeeding, but vague or contradictory advice left them unsure.
They linked breast milk to child growth and six-month exclusivity, yet some planned early foods because of work, family pressure and myths about weak milk.
Key findings
01Pregnant women recognised nurses and prenatal guidance as sources of breastfeeding information, but some found the advice vague or insufficient.
02Healthcare professionals, family members and strangers sometimes discouraged breastfeeding, pressuring women to stop or making them feel ashamed in public.
03Participants associated exclusive breastfeeding with child growth, development and immunity, and understood the first six months, but some planned early foods because of work or beliefs about milk insufficiency.
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What it does not show
The study was done in one riverside municipal health unit in Belém, so the themes may not apply to other riverside, urban or national settings. Participants were a convenience sample of 20 pregnant women, and the analysis does not estimate how common these views are in the wider population. The interview script was not pilot tested, transcripts were not shared with participants for checking, and 23.66% of text segments were not used in the classification. This is descriptive qualitative work, not an intervention study, so it cannot show that guidance or support changes breastfeeding behaviour or outcomes.
Declared interests
The funding and conflicts section lists scholarships from CNPq and FAPESPA through the PIBIC/UEPA scientific initiation programme for the first two authors.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that nurse-led breastfeeding guidance improves exclusive breastfeeding rates. It describes what 20 pregnant women said and knew; no breastfeeding outcomes or intervention were measured.