Abstract
In 2011, the Ministry of Health established the Rede Cegonha (“Stork Network”), to ensure full and integrated care, from pregnancy to 24 months of life. On this important advance, this article aims to promote a critical analysis of the Stork Network Ordinance from a dialogue with Winnicott's theory of personal maturity. The results of our analysis are presented from four guiding axes: Integrative characteristics of care, in which we discuss characteristics of the Rede Cegonha that favor an integrative care; Caring for the caregiver, in which we emphasize the possibilities of this network to support of the double mother-baby; Specificities of maternal and child health care, in which we discuss the attention to the specifics of the initial emotional development process; and Ethics of care, in which we highlight the need for an ethical posture implied in the care. This article indicated the potentialities and weaknesses of the Rede Cegonha, bringing new perspectives to improve maternal and child health care especially in the first two years of life. Finally, we emphasize that although policy does not guarantee the way how care is operationalized, we reiterate the Rede Cegonhas’s potential for an integrator maternal and child health care.
Keywords:
maternal-child healthcare; Unified Health System; Psychoanalysis; child development