Abstract
The absence or insufficiency of a more complex approach to breastfeeding in official breastfeeding promotion materials induced the research project that investigated maternal perceptions about the act of breastfeeding their babies and the weaning process and its implications for them, their children and families. This article presents the results of the aforementioned research, based on the analysis of interviews with women who weaned a maximum of two years ago. Women's experiences are affected by models of motherhood asserted by official discourses for breastfeeding and those that appear in the media. Sharing subjects seldom addressed or silenced in these discourses have helped them to reframe the breastfeeding experience, displacing their meanings and, to some extent, transforming them.
Keywords:
Breastfeeding; Weaning; Maternal perceptions; Discourse Analysis