Introduction. Immediate postnatal and lactation period may cause many difficulties. During this time women need support of their relatives and medical personnel. Aim. The aim of the paper was to assess the level of support given to the breast-feeding women depending on sociodemographic factors. Matherial and methods. The survey included 200 breast-feeding women who had just had babies and were patients on the Materninty- Newborn Babies Ward at the Stefan Kardynał Wyszyński Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in Lublin. The survey was conducted from November 2013 to February 2014 and was voluntary and anonymous. It was conducted using a diagnostic poll with the standard instrument – Krystyna Kmiecik-Baran’s Social Support Scale and the qustionnaire sheet prepared by the author. Results. On the basis of the survey the level of general social support within the group of the breast-feeding women was established. It showed that 51% of the surveyed women received an average social support, 45.5% received low support and only 3.5% claimed to have recived high level of support. Conclusions. the analysis of the results shows that women were given an average level of social support. Furthermore, the survey showed that marital status of the surveyed women conditioined the amount of suport received during the lactation period, thus the women being in partner relationships received more support than the married women. Age, place of birth, education and financial situation had no inluence on the level of suport offered to the women in the immediate postnatal period.

Key words: breast-feeding, social support, sociodemographic factors.