Outpatient follow-up of a group of premature infants and the prevalence of breastfeeding at discharge and at six months: speech-language pathology contributions

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia

Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil¹  Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Irati, Brasil¹  Fujinaga, Cristina Ide¹  Czechowski, Aliana Eduarda¹ 

关键词: Infant;    newborn;    Birth weight;    Premature;    Breast feeding;    Weaning;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-80342010000400016

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia

【 摘 要 】

PURPOSE:To verify the prevalence of breastfeeding in preterm infants weighting over 1500 g at hospital discharge and until six months of life.METHODS: This is a quantitative descriptive observational retrospective study, based on the analysis of records of infants born between January 2006 and December 2007, which were assisted by the Speech-Language Pathology department in the pediatric unit and the Speech-Language Pathology outpatient clinic of a hospital. The inclusion criteria were: low birth weight preterm infants, with no congenital heart or pulmonary diseases, no genetic syndromes, and APGAR score higher than three at one minute and five at five minutes.RESULTS: The results from the 156 records studied showed that the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding at hospital discharge was 58.3%. At six months it was observed a prevalence of 22.2% of exclusive breastfeeding.CONCLUSION: The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding was well below the World Health Organization recommendation, which is exclusive breastfeeding until the sixth month of life.

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