This paper aims to accomplish an integrative literature review on the types of technologies that nurses have developed or that they could use to promote breastfeeding. A research was carried out in October 2009 using the descriptors: breastfeeding, nursing and technology, in the CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed and LILACS databases. 127 references were found, 10 of them participated in the analysis for they fit the study selection criteria. It was verified that most (6 - 60%) of the studies were found in Pubmed, in English (8 - 80%) and didn't mention the study type (4 - 40%). Thirteen types of care technologies were identified, classified as hard (8 - 61.5%) and soft (5 - 38.5%), the main target audience was formed by children's mothers (9 - 90%), with the video/footage as the most used technology (4 - 40%). The use of soft and soft-hard technologies should be stimulated, for they are considered practical, easily developable and appliable.
Breast feeding; Nursing; Technology; Nursing research
