Técnicas de lactancia materna asociadas a complicaciones mamarias en usuarias del Hospital Universitario de Motupe.

The OMS recommends that the ideal way to provide young children with the nutrients they need is breastfeeding; however, pain and nipple lesions are the main breast complications that occur during the first weeks of motherhood. The present reseach named "MATERNAL BREASTFEEDING TECHNIQUES ASSOCIATED WITH MAMMARY COMPLICATIONS IN USERS OF THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MOTUPE" its aim of this study is to determine breastfeeding techniques associated with breast complications in users of the University Hospital of Motupe. The study was descriptive, observational and cross-sectional; the instrument used to collect information was a survey and a breastfeeding observation sheet. The sample was conformed by 90 mothers in breastfeeding period with children of one year of age since September 2017 until May 2018. The results were emptied into simple and cross tables, with the support of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word programs; These show that among the breastfeeding techniques most used by mothers, 48.9% for the sitting position, and lying down with 46.7%. Due to extraction techniques 55.6% of surveyed mothers applied this technique, but the most common is manual with 30%. Among breast complications, 82.2% of the surveyed mothers presented complications such as a pain in the nipple, cracks with bleeding followed by hardening of the breasts, 13.4% have not experienced any complications during the breastfeeding process and 4.4% of mothers do not breastfeed their child. Key words: Breastfeeding techniques, Breastfeeding, Mammary complications, Manual breast milk extraction. .

• Main Author: Íñiguez Monteza, Briggette Stefany (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: LACTANCIA MATERNA; COMPLICACIONES MAMARIAS
• Online Access: http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/20622