Expectativas e frustrações vivenciadas por mulheres que optam pelo parto normal.

Abstract

The natural childbirth can be conceptualized as a physiological process that develops and ends without the need for surgical interventions the example of Cesarean child-birth, in which the woman can´t be childbirth’s protagonist, being treated as a passive object of interventions and separated from her family, standing alone. This situation sugest an immersion of the mother in hostile and unknown enviroment. Some cases of verbal violence, practiced by healthprofessionals who are not committed to the humanization of assistance have been registered. From this the objective of meeting the expectations and frustrations of women who experienced the natural childbirth.This study consists of a quantitative approach, performed on Dr. Deodato Cartaxo Maternity., whose sample of study subjects was approached in the period from January to February 2018, with recente mothers subjected to natural childbirth. The data was collected in the period between August and December 2017, from a semi-structured interview, guided by a pre-tested form. The characterization of the sample was performed and registered, as well as experiences and behavioral ones before the birth. The universe of study consists off 35 women who have given birth in the health care unit. It was realized in the research that most women would prefer the natural childbirth (82,85%), and that more than half of the participants would choose the regular way again (54,28%), the pain is the main reason that causes fear in the majority of the participants (82,85%), and after a natural childbirth, most of them (77,14%) expected a quick recovery. It was found that there was no incentive for the natural childbirth during prenatal care for the sample consider of the study (37,14%) and that the information offered about prenatal are still insufficient, being possible to realize that the main expectations of the women were related to a fast recovery and the pain of childbirth. According to the results , to know and analyze the experiences of women who have experienced the normal child-birth is indispensable to understand the meanings of this moment, what is an aid to identify the gaps that still exist on assistence provided at time of the birth.