Experienced by women about children late weaning

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present the processes, concepts and women’s experiences during “late” weaning process because women’s experiences on natural weaning aren’t reports in the literature. It’s a qualitative study which methodological approach is the Grounded Theory and the data collect method is Participating Observation. Data about 60 women were collected through two techniques: open interview and non – structured observation. Late weaning occurs in the absence of physical, physiological or social problems and contains an experience of five sub – processes: “Believing in an age limit”, “Skepticism in the feeding power of mother’s milk”, “Being influenced”, “Weaning with tranquility” and “Some difficulties in weaning”.