[Breastfeeding and nutrition beliefs]. / Aleitamento materno e as crenças alimentares.

Hypogalactia has been one of the reasons that lead mothers to early weaning. Beliefs and taboos influence breastfeeding during lactation. This study aims at identifying regional lactagogues used as a support to breastfeeding based on taboos and beliefs. It is a case report which uses prose analysis. The findings show that feeding oneself with certain types of food or not, having experienced breastfeeding, beliefs transmitted by family members and physicians and the child's growth and development were factors which stimulated breastfeeding.

[Women and health: their concerns]. / Mulher e saúde: suas preocupações.

This investigation is part of a transcultural research project on women and health, which has as its conceptual framework women's life experiences. This research is qualitative in nature, and the methodology utilized is a content analysis of the documented discourses of a group of lower class women in Ribeirão Preto (SP). The results demonstrate that for these women, health is much more than the absence of disease". Their health concerns are biological, interpersonal, social and economic in nature, and are based more upon their personal experiences and social perceptions than on the concept of health and disease. The importance of this research is its relevance for quality nursing care which takes into consideration the many aspects of being a woman.

[Nursing care for the mother-child dyad--the attitude of undergraduate nursing students]. / Assistência de enfermagem ao binômio mãe-filho--opinião de alunos de graduação em enfermagem.

This study was carried out to verify the undergraduate students opinion about their experiences in nursing assistance to new born baby and the postpartum woman in separated and integrated ways. The factors investigated were opportunity for education, interation, teaching value in the fifth semester and its contribution to the community.