Barriers imposed in the relationship between puerperal women and newborns in the COVID-19 pandemic scenario
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.965Keywords:
Postpartum period, Breastfeeding, Pandemic, Maternal and child healthAbstract
A new vírus called Sars-CoV-2, or COVID-19, appeared attheend of 2019 and caused several changes world wide. In view of this, countries have established preventive measures against this pandemic, such as social isolation, use of personal protective equipment (PPE's) and care for individuals within the so-called risk groups, such as the elderly, hypertensive, chronically ill and recently, pregnant women and puerperal women were included. For puerperal women, breastfeeding is an essential moment, which, in addition to a moment of natural feeding, is na opportunity to strengthen the mother-baby bond. Aiming at a more cautious attention to a possible transmission of COVID-19 during breastfeeding, preventive measures for this act can hinder this binomial and bring harm to both.
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Copyright (c) 2020 Monique Maria Silva da Paz, Milene de Oliveira Almeida, Nadine Oliveira Cabral, Thais Josy Castro Freire de Assis, Cristina Kátya Torres Teixeira Mendes
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