Introduction:

breastfeeding constitutes the most important measure to achieve the reduction of morbidity and mortality rates due to infectious diseases in the early stages of life; it provides benefits to the child since birth and facilitates all the nutritional requirements for a healthy and systematic development. To carry out health actions to maintain breastfeeding during the established period, constitutes a priority for the Mother-Child Program.

Objective:

to increase the benefits perceived toward breastfeeding in the third-trimester pregnant women admitted the Maternal Care Home of Media Luna municipality, Granma province, during the period September-November 2019.

Methods:

a quasi-experimental study with an educational intervention was conducted, having the before-after modality, without a control group and with a group of 40 pregnant women. The theoretical methods applied were: analytical-synthetic and the questionnaire as empirical method. Nonparametric test of significance was the statistical method applied.

Results:

the majority of the pregnant women were between 21-25 years old, 62,5 % of them had a senior high-school educational level where those without working links prevailed. Initial evaluation showed low levels of the perceived benefits of breastfeeding (77,5 %) of the pregnant women studied and after the application of the educational program, it was possible to increase the perceived benefits of breastfeeding in the 97,5 % of the participants.

Conclusions:

with the implementation of the educational intervention research proposed it was possible to increase the perceived benefits towards breastfeeding in pregnant women.

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