DISCONTINUATION OF EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING: FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LIFE

A retrospective study was carried out, where the study population consisted of 45 children and their mothers of the total number of children born in the 26 de Julio Popular Council from October 2020 to October 2021, who abandoned exclusive breastfeeding before 6 months of age with the objective of determining the factors that influence the early abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding and its consequences. It was found that the mothers' ages were optimal for breastfeeding between 20 and 35 years (75.6%), average technician (46.7%), that as a cause of abandonment they had a damaged nipple (28.9%), poor infant positioning techniques (26.9%) with a birth weight of more than 3001 g (77.7%), and the most common complication in children was acute respiratory infections (42.2%).It was concluded. The period in which they abandoned breastfeeding, most of them did it early, they had knowledge about breastfeeding and family support did not influence the maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding.