This qualitative and descriptive study aims at analyzing perspectives on normal labor pain of primigravid and their relationships with the social-cultural context, as well as the antenatal care. Primigravid from a Public Maternity Hospital in Goiânia-Goiás, Brazil, were interviewed during the third quarter of pregnancy and their speeches were assessed through the use of the Method of Interpretation of Meanings. The ten participants presented normal pregnancy and they were between 18 and 31 years old. From the primigravid interviews emerged ambiguous perceptions and feelings, either as a natural phenomenon inherent to childbirth or as a suffering phenomenon. Notwithstanding, they supported their expectations concerning pain as a natural phenomenon regarding labor, with the perspective of having a healthy and satisfactory childbirth experience. These outcomes can subsidize educating actions in the antenatal period favoring a view towards women´s integrality as childbirth agents.
Labor pain; Natural childbirth; Prenatal care; Obstetrical nursing; Women's health