Introduction:

breast milk contains all the nutrients necessary for the development of the child and has several advantages over any developed substitute. It is considered the most perfect vaccine of all time; Due to the increase in the abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding before six months of life it is necessary to identify the risk factors that influence this.

Objective:

to identify the bio-social risk factors that influence the abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding before the sixth month of life in the Polyclinic March 13, Bayamo, Granma; in the period from January to December 2018.

Method:

a retrospective case-control and descriptive study was carried out, with the purpose of identifying the risk factors that influence the abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding before the sixth month of life. In the case group were included those who abandoned breastfeeding and in the control group those who offered exclusive breastfeeding to their child until the 6th month of life; Informed consent was requested and a questionnaire was applied to the mothers under study.

Results:

147 mothers were studied, in the case group, breastfeeding abandonment was more frequent in children under 20 years of age, with secondary or pre-university level, with dysfunctional families in 73.5% and as referred to as having the feeling that the Baby goes hungry, does not get full or do not have enough breast milk.

Conclusions:

the maternal age under 20 years of age, the low level of schooling, the dysfunctional family and the misguided perception that the baby is hungry or not full due to not having enough breast milk, are the main factors that cause abandonment of breastfeeding in our research causing the introduction of other types of milk available.

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