Implementação da amamentação na primeira hora de vida do recém-nascido na Maternidade Divino Amor em Parnamirim/RN

Abstract

Introduction: Birth in the hospital environment is characterized by the adoption of various technologies and procedures in order to make it safer. Several initiatives have been helping the process of humanizing the delivery and birth care, one of these is the stimulus to breastfeeding in the first hour of life, advocated by the Stork Network, and that brings benefits to the newborn and parturient. Objective: To implement strategies to stimulate breastfeeding in the first hour of life of the newborn at the Hospital Maternidade do Divino Amor in the municipality of Parnamirim / RN. Method: This is an intervention project developed in a maternity hospital in Northeastern Brazil. The target audience is directly the managers of the institution and the health workers of the delivery room and, indirectly, will work with the parturients and their babies. Initially a situational analysis of the scenario was developed and then the goals and strategies for the intervention were planned. Expected results: With the implementation of this intervention, it was provided to the professionals of the institution's delivery room, subsidies to offer the puerperae and their newboRN, conditions to stimulate breastfeeding in the first hour of life, and after analyzing records in medical records it was possible to identify that 62%, most of the newboRN in the analyzed period, began breastfeeding in the first hour of life still in the delivery room as proposed by numerous public policies of the Ministry of Health, among them the Stork Network. This result evidences the positive effect of the developed intervention.