Trajetória do grupo de mães amigas do peito e o início empoderamento feminino no processo de amamentação

Abstract

This paper reports on the historical trajectory of the Amigas do Peito Mothers Group, in support of breastfeeding, which emerged as a pioneer on the initiative of the newly born mother Bibi Vogel, within a social context without the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. Women were little intended for breastfeeding. As a result of the very infrequent introduction of breastfeeding and low and dismembered breastfeeding rates, compounded by the massive introduction of artificial infant formula, with a consequent increase in infant mortality and / or morbidity rates due to diarrhea and malnutrition in many countries, including Brazil . Gradually, with much struggle and firmness, as women have been gathering, strengthening, taking for themselves as decisions that involve issues of childbirth, breastfeeding and the care of their children. Thus, there is a chronology of the actions of the group and its founder, with the full range of resources used for breastfeeding, recalling that this group was a national reference for breastfeeding support for about three decades. Simultaneously we will see as main actions in public health directed to this subject; From a group foundation to the present day. We use as the most important tool the qualitative methodology of "History of Life", with main research in the collection provided by the curators of the Group of Mothers Amigas do Peito.