Identification of the doubts and difficulties of pregnant and postpartum women related to Breastfeeding/Identificacao das duvidas e dificuldades de gestantes e puerperas em relacao ao aleitamento materno

Purposes: this research aimed to identify and describe the doubts and difficulties of pregnant and postpartum women about breastfeeding, and compare them on the pregnancy period and postpartum period. Methods: it is characterized by a cross-sectional, descriptive, comparative, composed of two groups: pregnant and postpartum women. There was the approval of the Ethics Committee in Research / Santa Casa under no 23355. For collect it drafted a questionnaire with questions about breastfeeding. The variables were analyzed by associations between the answers of the groups using the Chi-square test, Fisher's exact and Student's t. Results: the postpartum women had higher knowledge scores about breastfeeding compared to pregnant women (p = 0,001). By linking the age with the knowledge, the higher the postpartum women age the higher their percentage of knowledge (r = 0, 283, p = 0,011). By analyzing the primiparous mothers, we found that these were more complaints compared to those who already have one or more children (p = 0,014). Conclusions: pregnant women, primiparous women and teenager girls have more doubts and difficulties in relation to breastfeeding. The care team must be prepared for the pregnant woman has the right to treat her breast awareness and breast feeding, reaching the puerperal period safer and encouraged for exclusive breastfeeding. KEYWORDS: Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Breast Feeding; Dentistry; Postpartum Period; Pregnancy Objetivos; identificar e descrever as duvidas e dificuldades das gestantes e puerperas em relacao a amamentacao, alem de compara-las nos periodos pre-natal e puerperal. Metodos: caracteriza-se por um estudo transversal, descritivo e comparativo, composto por dois grupos: gestantes e puerperas. Houve a aprovacao do Comite de Etica em Pesquisas / Santa Casa sob no. 23355. Para coleta elaborou-se questionario com perguntas sobre aleitamento materno. As variaveis foram analisadas por meio de associacoes entre as respostas dos grupos com a utilizacao dos testes Qui-Quadrado de Pearson, Exato de Fisher e T de Student. Resultados: as puerperas apresentaram maior escore de conhecimento geral quando comparadas as gestantes (p = 0,001). Ao relacionar a idade com o conhecimento, quanto maior a idade da puerpera maior o percentual de conhecimento (r= 0, 283; p=0,011). Ao analisar as puerperas primiparas, observou-se que estas apresentavam mais queixas quando comparadas com as que ja possuiam um ou mais filhos (p= 0,014). Co