Background:

the exclusive breastfeeding until the six months of age of the baby has been through the medicine´s history something really difficult to achieve with many mothers who breastfeed.

Objective:

to identify the causes of abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding by the mothers.

Methods

a descriptive study with a quantitative and cross-sectional approach was carried out between September and November of 2016. It was applied a survey and observation to 73 mothers of infants up to 6 months of age who abandoned exclusive breastfeeding.

Results:

when analyzing the data obtained, it showed that the highest age group was 14 to 16 years old, the secondary school level was the most prevalent, the level of knowledge of this population was low, as far as the sources of information, 68.49 % did not identify any. When observing the technique of breastfeeding it was found that mothers did it in deficient way. When analyzing the time of abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding it was obtained that it was at 3 months old in the majority. The main cause of exclusive breastfeeding´s abandonment was the onset of the studies. The family per capita of this population is low where 32 of them are of 100 to 200 dollars monthly and the digestive diseases were the most frequent suffered by the infants.

Conclusions:

the population studied were adolescents, who were still in their studies, with low level of knowledge of the subject, low economic income, which according to them they did not have a source of information, all these factors contributed that a great part of them abandoned exclusive breastfeeding before 3 months, bringing diseases to infants.

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