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Breastfeeding is recommended as the optimal source of nutrition for newborns for the first 6 months of life and beyond with the addition of complementary foods. While breastfeeding initiation rates have been increasing, duration rates remain a concern as many women prematurely discontinue due to difficulties encountered rather than maternal choice. In addition, there is a sizable gap between rates of exclusive breastfeeding and current recommendations. Targeting modifiable variables that may be amenable to intervention is one strategy to improve breastfeeding outcomes. One such modifiable variable is breastfeeding self-efficacy. Although research has clearly shown that breastfeeding self-efficacy is predictive of breastfeeding duration and exclusivity, it is unknown whether it can be enhanced to improve breastfeeding outcomes. The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled trial was to examine the feasibility and compliance of a newly developed trial protocol and the acceptability of an intervention to increase breastfeeding self-efficacy in the immediate postpartum period. Secondary outcomes included determining whether there were any trends between groups related to breastfeeding self-efficacy, duration, and exclusivity. Participants included 150 primiparous mothers who were breastfeeding their healthy, full-term infants. Eligible and consenting mothers were randomized to either a control group (standard postpartum care) or an intervention group (standard postpartum care plus the self-efficacy intervention). Participants allocated to the intervention group received three individualized, self-efficacy enhancing sessions with the researcher; two sessions were conducted in hospital, and one was administered via telephone 1 week following hospital discharge. A research assistant blinded to group allocation collected outcome data at 4 and 8 weeks postpartum. The results suggested that the administration of the intervention was feasible and that there was a high degree of protocol compliance; the majority of participants reported that the intervention was beneficial. Secondary outcomes identified that there was a trend among participants in the intervention group to have improved breastfeeding outcomes, including higher rates of breastfeeding self-efficacy, duration, and exclusivity at 4 and 8 weeks postpartum. Preliminary evidence also suggested that the self-efficacy intervention may have assisted to decrease perceptions of insufficient milk supply among the intervention group participants. Overall, the findings from this pilot trial indicated that a larger trial is warranted.

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Purpose: Obesity/Overweight in children is an epidemic and the most common disorder of childhood in the developed world. Prevalence is increasing, leading to short- and long-term complications. Breastfeeding may protect against childhood obesity, but the debate is ongoing. The main purpose of this project was to assess the relationship between breastfeeding and being overweight in early childhood.Methods: Data were collected from the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone survey; National Survey of Children's Health, 2003. Overall, 16,358 children, ages 3 to 5, were included in the sample. SPSS Complex Sample software was utilized to generate for all analyses. Complex samples crosstabs was utilized to see if there is association between the outcome and risk factors. Complex samples logistic regression was done to assess whether breastfeeding is associated with being overweight in childhood after adjustment for potential confounders.Results: Being overweight was more prevalent among children who are Black, living at 95th percentile). After adjusting for confounders, the effect remained statistically significant (OR: 1.6; 95% confidence interval: 1.2-2.1).Conclusions: Breastfeeding has a protective effect against being overweight in children 3 to 5 years of age. While more research is needed to investigate the risk factors for overweight, public health efforts should continue to promote breastfeeding as a safe and effective method for nutrition, which has the potential to improve the overall health of children.

Background: Breastfeeding is well established as the optimal method for ensuring healthy infant nutrition. However, many adolescents remain unaware of the role of breastfeeding. Adolescent mothers continue to have the lowest rate of breastfeeding in many countries including Thailand, with only 17% of Thai adolescent mothers continuing to breastfed at 6 months postpartum. Objective: Examine factors influencing breastfeeding behaviors in adolescent mothers, particularly those in Thailand. Methods: This dissertation project involved two research studies focusing on breastfeeding influencing factors in adolescent mothers. The first study was an integrative review of 22 articles published in 2000-2012. The findings revealed that personal factors appear to be the most important to the decision to initiate and maintain breastfeeding for adolescent mothers. Perceptions of cultural expectations also influence breastfeeding decisions and behaviors. Additionally, infant factors seem to be considerations in breastfeeding duration for the adolescent mother. The second study used a prospective cohort design to explore personal, social, cultural, and infant factors that explain and predict breastfeeding initiation and maintenance at 4 weeks postpartum in Thai adolescent mothers. The sample of 96 adolescent mothers was recruited at two prenatal clinics in Thailand. There were three time points for data collection; the initial visit was completed in the prenatal period, the second visit was within 48 hours postpartum, and the third was at 4 weeks postpartum. Instruments were the Iowa Infant feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS), Breastfeeding Influencing Factor Assessment (BIFA), Hughes Breast-Feeding Support Scale (HBSS), Pictorial Assessment of Temperament (PAT), Vulnerable Baby Scale (VBS), and Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC), all of which were translated into the Thai language. Results: Personal, social, and cultural factors were significantly correlated with breastfeeding initiation and were significant positive predictors of exclusive breastfeeding duration. Infant temperament was a significant negative predictor of exclusive breastfeeding duration. Maternal competence was also positively correlated with duration of exclusive breastfeeding. Conclusion: Facilitating the support mothers receive from their personal support systems is important to breastfeeding duration and maternal competence in the postpartum period. Enhancing exclusive breastfeeding and maternal competence provides a supportive environment for new adolescent mothers to develop their maternal role.

As transformações sociais com a excessiva valorizção da imagem corporal idealizada esteticamente, em especial das mamas como símbolo da feminilidade, submete as mulheres a procurar recursos cirúrgicos para adequar sua aparência aos padrões vigentes. A maior facilidade de acesso às cirurgias estéticas repercute na prática assistencial e observamos um número crescente de mulheres com mamoplastia. O objetivo deste estudo foi de compreender a experiência de amamentação de um grupo de mulheres com mamoplastia redutora e de aumento. A pesquisa qualitativa foi desenvolvida utilizando o modelo teórico representativo da experiência de amamentar, \"Pesando Riscos e Benefícios\", elaborado por Silva (1997), e o Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) para organização dos dados. Participaram do estudo 14 mulheres, sendo oito com mamoplastia redutora e seis com implante mamário, as quais expressaram o desejo de amamentar e apresentavam boas condições clínicas e, mãe e recém-nascido tinham qualquer distúrbio impeditivo à amamentação. Na ocasião das entrevistas, cerca de um mês após o nascimento, no grupo de mulheres com mamoplastia redutora, a amamentação exclusiva foi observada em caráter de exceção, duas mulheres desmamaram e seis estavam em aleitamento materno. As mulheres com prótese mamária, metade estavam amamentando exclusivmente e as restantes, em aleitamento materno. Na análise dos dados foram extraídos 16 DSC, distribuídos em quatro temas: \"Opção pela cirurgia plástica e o projeto de amamentação\", \"Vivenciando a prática da amamentação\", Reflexão sobre a interface da cirurgia com o processo de amamentação\" e \"Conciliar o papel de mãe, nutriz e mulher - não é fácil\". Os DSC revelaram o movimento de mulheres em buscar a mamoplastia para obtenção de maior satisfação com a imagem corporal e as ansiedades decorrentes da opção cirúrgica que afloram na gestação ou no pós-parto ao se depararem com a prática da amamentação. Ao vivenciarem a amamentação, as mulheres avaliaram a capacidade de produzir leite em quantidade adequada às necessidades do filho. O complemento lácteo apareceu como benefício à mulher, sendo uma estratégia para prolongar o período de amamentação e postergar o desmame e, por vezes, como auxílio para recuperação dos traumas mamilares. As mulheres em sua maioria acreditam que a mamoplastia interferiu na amamentação, observando dificuldade de ejeção e produção láctea reduzida. As mulheres que não foram capazes de manter a amamentação exclusiva expressam sentimento de culpa pela opção cirúrgica e procuraram garantir o vínculo com o filho e transmitir o amor materno construindo outras estratégias. As dificuldades em amamentar foram pautadas em questões biológicas e estruturais da glândula mamária e não em questões culturais de valorização do corpo feminino. A crença social e dos profissionais da área da saúde que a mulher com mamoplastia não deseja amamentar, para não comprometer o resultado estético de suas mamas obtido pela cirurgia não se evidenciou. Percebe-se que permanece a intenção da mulher em manter sua imagem em corcordância com os padrões idealizados, projetando a possibilidade de repetir a cirurgia no futuro / The social transformations with excessive valuation of the aesthetically idealized body image and, specially the breasts as femininity, submit the women to search surgical resources in order to adequate their appearance to the present patterns. The bigger easiness of access to the aesthetical surgeries reverberates on the first-aid practice and we observe an increasing number of women with mammoplasty. The object of present study was to understand the breastfeeding experience of a group of women with reducing and enlarging mammoplasty. The qualitative research was developed utilizing the representative theoretical model of the breastfeeding experience \"Pesando Riscos e Benefícios\" [Weighing Risks and Benefits] elaborated by Silva (1997) and for the data organization the Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) [Collective Subject Speech]. It has participated in the study 14 women being 8 with reducing mammoplasty and 6 with mammary implant, that expressed the desire for breastfeeding and that presented good clinical conditions and both, mother and newborn, did not have any impeditive disturbance to the breastfeeding. By the occasion of the interviews, about one month after the birth, in the group of women with reducing mammoplasty, the exclusive breastfeeding was observed in exception character, two women have weaned and six were in maternal feeding. On the women with mammary prosthesis, half of them was exclusively breastfeeding and the remaining, on maternal feeding. In the data analysis there were drawn 16 DSCs, distributed in four themes: \"Options for the plastic surgery and the breastfeeding project\", \"Experiencing the breastfeeding practice\", \"Reflection about the surgery interface with the breastfeeding process\" and \"Conciliating the mother, nourisher and woman role - it is not easy\". The DSCs have disclosed the women motion searching the mammoplasty for achieving greater satisfaction with the body image and the anxieties elapsing from the surgical option that arise on the gravidity or on the post-partum when facing with the breastfeeding practice. When experiencing the breastfeeding, the women have assessed the capacity for producing milk in a quantity adequte to the child necessities. The lactic complement has shown up as a benefit for the woman, being a strategy for extending the beastfeeding period and postponing the weaning and, many times, as a help for recovering from the mammilary traumas. Most of the women believe that the mammoplasty has interfered in the breastfeeding, observing ejection difficulty and reduced lactic production. The women that were not capable of sustaining the exclusive breastfeeding expressed guilty sense for the surgical option and tried to ensure the entailment with the child and to transmit the maternal love building new strategies. The difficulties for breastfeeding were guided by biological and structural questions of the mammary gland and not by cultural questions of female body valuation. The social belief and among the professionals of the area that the woman with mammoplasty do not desire to breastfeed in order to not compromise the static results of her breasts achieved through surgery has not been shown clearly, although being perceived that it remains the intention for keeping her image according to the idealized patterns, projecting the possibility for repeating the surgery in the future

A depressão pós-parto é um transtorno mental de alta prevalência que surge nas primeiras semanas, após o parto, e provoca alterações emocionais, cognitivas comportamentais e físicas. Mães adolescentes apresentam risco aumentado para a depressão pós-parto. Estudos mostram que a prática do aleitamento materno não se dá de forma efetiva nos casos em que a nutriz apresenta alterações emocionais. Diante do exposto, buscamos compreender quais as representações sociais sobre amamentação na perspectiva de mães adolescentes com sintomas de depressão pós-parto. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida com 14 mulheres, mães de crianças com até um ano de idade e usuárias de um serviço público de saúde de Ribeirão Preto-SP. A primeira etapa consistiu na aplicação da Escala de Depressão Pós-natal de Edimburgo para rastrear as mães adolescentes que apresentavam sintomas de depressão, no puerpério. As mães que apresentavam pontuação de 12 ou mais pontos eram convidadas a continuar a participar do estudo. Para as mulheres que aceitavam ser incluídas na pesquisa, foram aplicados questionário sociodemográfico e a entrevista semiestruturada que foram gravados e transcritos na íntegra e realizados no local de escolha da participante. Para a análise dos dados, utilizamos o Método de Interpretação dos Sentidos à luz das representações sociais na perspectiva socioantropológica. Emergiram três categorias temáticas: 1) \"Ser mãe na adolescência com sintomas de depressão no pós-parto\"; 2) \"Amamentando na adolescência com sintomas de depressão no pós-parto\"; 3) \"A rede de apoio: eu e a amamentação\". A gravidez é considerada indesejada no contexto investigado, pois é vista como empecilho para se dar continuidade à vida. E isto se reflete negativamente na amamentação, visto que, há dificuldades para se desempenhar papéis maternos, nesse momento da vida. Com relação à amamentação, observamos que os conhecimentos se restringem aos aspectos nutricionais e imunológicos, sendo desconsiderados os aspectos relacionais e de construção de vínculo da prática de amamentar. Este pensamento se justifica quando fazemos um olhar para o modo como as participantes se sentem somado ao contexto cultural em que vivem, um meio que trata a amamentação como mera prática de alimentação infantil. Há a ideia de que o leite materno é fraco, sendo a mamadeira vista como uma aliada, pois além de proporcionar sensação de saciedade do bebê por mais tempo, ainda impede que ele chore e incomode principalmente no período noturno, já no período diurno evita constrangimentos por ter de amamentar em locais públicos e pode ser oferecida por outra pessoa. A mamadeira é algo que proporciona sensação de liberdade, ocasionando a independência do bebê em relação à mãe. A mulher tem como maior fonte de influência e apoio sua mãe, o parceiro ainda permanece distante à realidade da amamentação e o profissional de saúde oferece orientações pontuais, nas quais desconsideram os contextos de vida nas quais as adolescentes estão inseridas. A internet é usada para se ter conhecimento, sendo considerada veículo de forte influência. Mesmo com apoio materno, a mulher ainda permanece sozinha, com dificuldades para falar sobre sua real situação emocional e sobre suas limitações para amamentar / Postpartum depression is a mental disorder of high prevalence that arises in the first weeks after childbirth and causes emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physical changes. Adolescent mothers present an increased risk for postpartum depression. Studies show that the practice of breastfeeding does not occur effectively in cases where the mother presents emotional changes. In view of the above, we aimed to understand which are the social representations regarding breastfeeding, in the perspective of adolescent mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression. This is a qualitative research conducted with 14 women, mothers of children up to one year of age and users of a public health service in Ribeirão Preto - SP. The first phase consisted in the application of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for screening adolescent mothers with symptoms of depression in the puerperal period. Mothers who achieved a score of 12 or more were invited to proceed participating in the research. For those who accepted to be included, socio demographic questionnaires were applied and, semi- structured interviews were conducted and recorded in a participant\'s choice location and then, fully transcribed. For the data analysis, we used the Interpretation of the Meaning Method, in accordance with the social representations in a socio anthropological approach. Three thematic categories emerged: 1) \"Being a mother in adolescence with symptoms of postpartum depression\"; 2) \"Breastfeeding in adolescence with symptoms of postpartum depression\"; 3) \"The network support: the breastfeeding and I.\" Pregnancy is considered undesirable in the context investigated, as it is seen as an impediment to give continuity to life. And this reflects negatively on breastfeeding, since there are difficulties to play maternal roles at this moment of life. Regarding breastfeeding, we observed that adolescent mother\'s knowledge is restricted to nutritional and immunological aspects, and the relational and building link aspects of breastfeeding practice are not considered. This thought is justified when observed how the participants feel in their cultural context, in which they deal with breastfeeding as a simple infant feeding practice. There is the idea that breast milk is weak, and the bottle is seen as an allied, since, as well as providing baby satiety feeling for longer, still prevents him to cry and bother, especially at night. Even during the day, the bottle avoids embarrassments when breastfeeding in public places and it can be offered by someone else. It is something that gives sense of freedom, causing the baby\'s independence from the mother. The woman has the greatest source of influence and support in her mother, while her partner remains distant to the reality of breastfeeding and the health professional provides specific guidelines in which disregards the life contexts in which the adolescents live. Internet is used in order to acquire knowledge, being considered vehicle of strong influence. Even with maternal support, the woman remains alone, struggling to talk about her real emotional situation and limitations to breastfeed. Thus, the social representations that support the breastfeeding practice, for these adolescents, bring with them the ambiguity of willing to give the best for your child - the breast milk, but also the will to be free and independent in life

Este trabalho investiga a situação do aleitamento materno em São Luís, Maranhão, numa tentativa para oferecer subsídios às autoridades quando na implantação o Programa Nacional de Incentivo ao Aleitamento Materno, do Ministério da Saúde. Foram entrevistadas 500 mães multíparas e 319 primíparas, num total de 819 mães, entre as idades de 15 e 40 anos. Os resultados revelaram que os conhecimentos das mulheres em relação às propriedades do leite e ao aleitamento materno são insuficientes, inadequados ou incorretos. Entretanto, surpreendeu a constatação de que a maioria (91,8 por cento ) das mães entrevistadas ainda adota o aleitamento materno. Recomendaç5es foram propostas do ponto de vista educativo como sugestões às autoridades para reforço da prática do aleitamento natural. / This paper investigates the situation of breast feeding in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, in an effort to offer subsidies to the authorithies when the National Breast Feeding Programme is introduced in the State. Eigth hundred and nineteen mothers ranging from 15 to 40 years of age were interviewed after delivery in two local Maternities. Results show that women\'s knowledge about milk and advantages of breast feeding is insufficient, inadequate or incorrect. However, it was surprising to find out that the majority (91,8 per cent ) of mothers interviewed still breast fed their babies. Recommendations concerning educational aspects Df the programme were presented emphasizing the need to maintain or increase breast feeding.

Apesar dos esforços a favor da humanização do nascimento, sabemos que ainda se fazem presentes na prática uma série de procedimentos intervencionistas no trabalho de parto e parto que interferem nesse processo. Assim, a depender de como se dá o processo de parturição, este acarretará nas condições maternas e neonatais para o início do aleitamento materno, e como consequência, no processo da amamentação, uma vez que a mulher deve ser o elemento chave para esta prática. A prontidão do recém-nascido (RN) para mamar, depende do seu estado de consciência, sendo que pode apresentar-se mais sonolento em situações que envolvem o uso de anestésicos ou outras intervenções em suas mães durante o trabalho de parto. O objetivo do presente estudo é identificar a relação entre a prontidão do RN para sugar a mama materna na primeira mamada no alojamento conjunto e a condução do trabalho de parto, parto e nascimento. Trata-se de um estudo observacional, transversal, descritivo exploratório, realizado com 43 binômios, com RN de idade gestacional entre 37 e 41 semanas e 6 dias, Apgar >= 7 no 5º minuto, filhos de mães primíparas. O projeto foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo, com protocolo (Nº1219/2010). As informações do processo de nascimento foram coletadas dos prontuários, e a partir das entrevistas às puérperas. A avaliação da prontidão dos RN para sugarem, foi feita por meio de filmagens dos neonatos desde o início ao término da primeira mamada no alojamento conjunto, sendo avaliados os estados de sono e vigília e mamada, com base no Formulário de Observação da mamada da OMS (1997). De acordo com o formulário os itens foram categorizados como \"sinais positivos\" e \"sinais negativos\", relacionados às condições favoráveis e às dificuldades na mamada. A análise foi fundamentada na estatística descritiva e na realização de testes estatísticos para análise comparativa entre as variáveis. Quanto aos resultados, em sala de parto, 17 (39,5%) neonatos foram colocados em contato pele imediato e apenas 4 (9,3%) sugaram o seio materno. Das 43 parturientes, 39 (90,7%) receberem analgesia, porém apenas 14 (32,6%) receberam a segunda analgesia (repique). No momento em que as mesmas receberam a primeira analgesia, a dilatação cervical variou entre 2 e 9 cm, sendo que 13 (33,3%) estavam com 5 cm. No repique, a dilatação cervical variou entre 4 e 10 cm, sendo que 6 (42,9%) estavam com 8 cm. O período mínimo de duração do trabalho de parto, foi de 25 minutos, e o tempo máximo, 11 horas. A menor duração do período expulsivo foi de 1 minuto e o tempo máximo, 59 minutos. Quanto aos dados referentes ao puerpério imediato, 36 (83,7%) mães referiram que estavam com sono logo após o parto e apenas 9 (20,9%) delas relataram estar sentindo algum tipo de dor e quanto ao cansaço, a maioria 41 (95,3%) referiu estar cansada. O período sem ingerir líquido variou de 33 minutos a 22h e 35 min e o período em jejum alimentar variou entre 2h 50 min e 21h 05 min. Em relação ao estado de sono e vigília no período que antecedeu a mamada, 18 (41,9%) dos recém nascidos estiveram no estado alerta quieto. Durante a mamada em 21(48,8%) dos neonatos, o estado sono ativo foi predominante. Na avaliação da mamada, os índices positivos se fizeram presentes nos diferentes domínios avaliados: 86,1% na sucção, 85,6% na postura corporal, 82,3% nas respostas do RN, 100% na anatomia da mama, no 78,4% tempo gasto na sucção durante a mamada. Quanto às associações entre as variáveis do trabalho de parto, parto e nascimento e as da mamada, obteve-se dados significativos entre a duração do período expulsivo e grupo sono e sonolento de estado de sono e vigília, com p=0,03. Embora as mães tivessem recebido intervenções durante o trabalho de parto e parto que pudessem interferir na qualidade da primeira mamada em alojamento conjunto, a maioria dos neonatos apresentou-se em estado de alerta, isto foi o suficiente para que eles apresentassem boa prontidão para mamar neste momento. O alojamento conjunto precoce, se mostrou uma prática favorável para a obtenção de sinais positivos na avaliação da primeira mamada à admissão de ambos. / Despite efforts to promote the humanization of birth, we know that still present in practice a number of interventional procedures during labor and childbirth that interfere with this process. So, depending on how is the parturition process, this will result in maternal and neonatal conditions for the initiation of breastfeeding, and as consequence, in the process of breastfeeding, since the woman should be the key element to this practice. The readiness of the newborn (NB) to nurse, depends on your state of consciousness, and may present more drowsy in situations involving the use of anesthetics or other interventions in their mothers during labor. The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between NB readiness to suck the maternal breast in the first feeding on the rooming in and conduct of labor, and birth. This is an observational, cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory, conducted with 43 binomials, with NB in the gestational age between 37 and 41 weeks and 6 days, Apgar score >= 7 in the fifth minute, the children of first-time mothers. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Nursing School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, with protocol (No. 1219/2010). Information from the birth process was collected from medical records and from interviews with puerperal. The assessment of the NB readiness to suck, was made by filming the neonates from the beginning to the end of the first feeding in rooming in, evaluated the states of sleep and wakefulness and feeding, based on Observation of breastfeeding from WHO (1997). According to the form of the items were categorized as \"positive signals\" and \"negative signals\", related to the favorable conditions and difficulties in feeding. The analysis was based on descriptive statistics and statistical tests for comparative analysis between the variables. As for the results in the delivery room, 17 (39.5%) neonates were placed in immediate contact skin and only 4 (9,3%) sucked the breast. Of the 43 pregnant women, 39 (90.7%) received analgesia, but only 14 (32.6%) received the second analgesia (reinjection). At the moment in which they receive a first analgesia, cervical dilation varied between 2 and 9 cm, while 13 (33.3%) had 5 cm. In reinjection, cervical dilation varied between 4 and 10 cm, and 6 (42.9%) had 8 cm. The minimum duration of labor was 25 minutes and the maximum period 11 hours. The lowest delivery duration was 1 minute and the maximum time, 59 minutes. As for the data relating to postpartum, 36 (83.7%) mothers reported that they were sleepy soon after birth and only 9 (20.9%) of them reported to be feeling some sort of pain and tiredness, the most 41 (95.3%) reported being tired. The period without ingesting fluid ranged from 33 minutes to 22h and 35 min and fasting period varied between 50 min and 21h 2h 05 min. Regarding the state of sleep and wakefulness in the run-feeding, 18 (41.9%) of the infants were in quiet alert state. While feeding in 21 (48.8%) of the neonates, the active sleep state was predominant. In the assessment of breastfeeding, positive indices were present in different areas evaluated: 86.1% in sucking, 85.6% in body posture, 82.3% of infants\' responses, 100% in the anatomy of the breast, 78, 4% time spent sucking during breastfeeding. Regarding the associations between the variables of labor, and birth and breastfeeding, significant data was obtained from the delivery duration and sleep group and sleepy state of sleep and wakefulness, with p = 0.03. Although mothers had received interventions during labor and delivery that could interfere with the quality of the first feeding in rooming in, most neonates presented on alert, that was enough for them to present good readiness to nurse this time. The early rooming in practice proved favorable for obtaining positive signals in the evaluation of the first feed intake both.