Abstract Objective: Evaluate the suckling at the first 24 hours post parturition, with the application of the Form of Observation and Assessment of suckling preconized by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Children’s Rights & Emergency Relief Organization (UNICEF), in puerperal women and their respective babies hospitalized to the maternity from a teaching hospital from Brazil. Method: it is a observational descriptive study, which has transversal character, performed during April, May and June of 2014, having 20 pairs of […]