SYSTEMATIC MONITORING OF BREASTFEEDING WOMEN'S SUPPORT ROOM

Abstract

Encouraging breastfeeding is an important strategy to promote the health of the child, useful to ensure adequate nutrition and strengthen bonding, affection and protection. The Support Room for Breastfeeding Women / Human Milk Collection Station is an equipment of the Fortaleza Health Department, made available to the population since 2015, being present in seven Primary Health Care Units, with the purpose of welcoming breastfeeding mothers who have complications during the lactation period. The study aimed to create an instrument for monitoring and evaluating this service, containing all the necessary information, to be used by all Support Rooms, in order to standardize the information collected, allowing to equip the management with systematic and standardized monitoring. For its implementation, it was necessary to raise the awareness of professionals and workers in these Support Rooms. The application of the instrument allows the creation of indicators, considering the items and variables that compose it, in order to monitor the results obtained, strengthen the team and assist in directing activities, avoiding the waste of time and efforts in ineffective actions; in addition to subsidizing management decisions.