Zmeny v prístupe k dojčeniu a starostlivosti o novorodenca na príklade dvoch generácií matiek

• Authors: Margita Jágerová

Title variants

EN

Changes in approach to breastfeeding and care for newborns using an example of two generations of mothers

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The changed socio-political conditions and transformation processes after 1989 had a significant impact on many spheres of life of our society. The text discusses these circumstances in connection with the issue of breastfeeding and its reflection from the perspective of mothers of two generations. The rise in popularity of breastfeeding and its preferences as the most appropriate method of nutrition in young children has been apparent for longer than adecade not only in Slovakia. This has been confirmed by works in the medical field as well as research on a specific sample of informants, on which the study is based. It attempts to reach an ethnological interpretation of the perception of breastfeeding by current mothers and women of an older generation. It confronts the attitudes of older women and current mothers towards breastfeeding and phenomena related thereto. It concludes that in recent years breastfeeding has been on the rise in comparison with the previous generation of mothers. The author considers the increased promotion of breastfeeding and the irreplaceability of breast milk in child nutrition to be the main factors contributing to this situation.

Keywords

EN

breastfeeding; care for newborns; mother; generational differences

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 29_(71)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 16-32
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Margita Jágerová

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic