Beliefs and taboos related to the care after delivery: their meaning for a women group

Acta Paulista de Enfermagem

Juliana Stefanello¹  Ana Márcia Spanó Nakano¹  Flávia Azevedo Gomes¹ 

[1],USP Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto Maternal-child Nursing and Public Health DepartmentRibeirão Preto SP ,Brazil

关键词: Postpartum period;    Postnatal care;    Maternal-child nursing;    Women health;    Período pós-parto;    Cuidado pós-Natal;    Enfermagem materno-infantil;    Saúde da mulher;    Período del postparto;    Cuidado postnatal;    Enfermería materno-infantil;    Salud de la mujer;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0103-21002008000200007

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To identify the meaning of care in the puerperal phase, within the family context. METHODS: It is a qualitative research, developed with 12 puerperal women and their relatives, who helped them with care after delivery. Data collection was performed by means of semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed based on the technique of thematic content analysis. RESULTS: In the postnatal period, care needs to be doubled, as it affects mother and child, besides the body vulnerability, which is open to diseases. In articulation with these ideas, the recommendations and restrictions as components of postpartum care are justified. CONCLUSION: Care in the puerperal phase is a feminine practice filled with beliefs and taboos that grants women with power of agents in this process, since she bears the knowledge of many generations at the same time that they act as subjects and reinvent the previously established systems, constructing themselves as mothers.

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