Nas alcovas da amamentação: o sofrimento psíquico de mulheres que apresentam dificuldades em amamentar

Abstract

Breastfeeding is an experience that exposes the mother-baby dyad to an great emotional intensity. This research aims to investigate and discuss the psychological suffering of women who have difficulties in breastfeeding using the psychoanalytic theory of Donald Woods Winnicott of the relationship between mother and baby. For this, observations and interviews with mothers who presented breastfeeding difficulties, users of the Human Milk Bank of the Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia, were performed. The psychoanalytic method used in the interviews allowed mothers to speak freely about their experiences of breastfeeding with their children in a context of transference with the researcher. The data were collected and analyzed based on qualitative research methodology, which provided an investigation in which the subjects discourse about their experiences and feelings is prioritized. It has been seen that the possibility of breastfeeding requires much more than information about the value of breastfeeding, demonstrating the need to consider the uniqueness of each woman in this process.