A trajetória na atenção pré-natal e na parturição de mulheres mães de recém-nascidos de risco

Abstract

In relation to children's health, notes the importance of prenatal care, for the sake of ensuring a peaceful and healthy pregnancy, and help reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality indicators. The objective was to know the history of pregnancy and prenatal women who had their children admitted to neonatal intensive care; describe aspects related to delivery and birth of babies who required hospitalization in intensive care. This is a qualitative study involving 25 mothers of newborn infants admitted to neonatal intensive care a public teaching hospital in southern Brazil. The data was collected in 2014 through semi-structured interviews. The data were submitted to thematic content analysis. The results showed that the participants discontinued the use of the contraceptive and sometimes found themselves pregnant women to seek care due to health problems. Although considered with a pregnancy risk, they perceived it as a quiet moment and prenatal care. The women began prenatal care late and had difficulty establishing bond with professionals and did not feel embraced in health services. The participants made a peregrination to get care for themselves and their children at birth. The type of birth was defined by the clinical condition of the mother and child. The findings of this study showed that women had to make a peregrination to access to health services for childbirth safely. The situation of risk, at delivery, obstructed the right of these women to participate in the process as a whole. This is in line with that recommended by current public policies. In this context, also because of the situation of clinical fragility of the baby, the direct and immediate contact with the mother was hampered by the need for hospitalization. It is recommended to practice of health professionals, to explain to women about reproductive planning and about the conditions of pregnancy and the right of access to a referral service safely.