Comunicação mãe-filho durante amamentação natural e artificial na era AIDS / Mother-child communication during natural and artificial feeding in the AIDS age / Comunicación madre-hijo durante lactancia natural y artificial en la era sida
When mothers with HIV breastfeed their children, this represents a risk factor to transmit the virus. Therefore, the exclusion of breastfeedingis recommended. Not breastfeeding can make communication between mother and child more difficult. A comparative study wascarried out in the light of proxemic factors between mother and child during artificial feeding and breastfeeding among HIV-positiveand negative women. At a rooming-in unit, 84 interactions between four mothers and their children were analyzed. Intimate distanceprevails in 100% of the interactions, as well as the sitting posture. Babies of HIV-positive mothers remained active longer than verticallyexposed babies. The quality of interactions over time and maternal responsiveness to the baby will probably determine repercussions ofnon-breastfeeding to the development of bonding between mother and child.