MOREIRA, M. A.; NASCIMENTO, E. R. Representações sociais sobre amamentação entre mulheres de três gerações: um estudo com Desenhos-Estórias Temático [Social Representation about breast-feeding among three-generation-women: a study with the Thematic Drawing-And-Story Procedure]. Revista Enferm. UFPE (online). Recife, v.7, n.7, 4589-96, jul. 2013.
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Objective: to identify the social representations of the experience of breastfeeding among women of three generations. Method: a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and centered study about the Theory of Social Representations and performed with 21 women of the same family and from three generations. Data collection was performed by Design-Themed Story, in October 2009 and July 2010, the graphics being examined by the observation with brief reading, clipping, categorization and interpretation of stories, after the approval of the Ethics Committee research under the opinion No. 422/2009. Results: women represent breastfeeding based on the principles of a practice instinctive, vocational, extreme caution when son towards developing nutritional detriment of perception of themselves. Conclusion: it was shown that breastfeeding found it anchored in the teaching-learning process of different generations and the care of the baby as the centerpiece. It was also revealed that breastfeeding was interspersed by the relations of affection as psychological support and/or family.