Abstract
Objective:
Understand meanings of midwifery practices in care for women ready to give birth at a public hospital according the postpartum women.
Methods:
Heideggerian phenomenological study developed at a public hospital. The participants were 06 women over 18 years of age in the immediate postpartum. The phenomenological interview was applied as the data collection technique between January and May 2017. In the comprehensive analysis, the movements of phenomenological reduction, construction and destruction were followed, in accordance with the theoretical philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger and phenomenology experts.
Results:
The women experience the parturition phenomenon in the form of fear and solicitude and in the opening of the disposition towards oneself, represented by the existential structures described in the units of meaning: A – Fear in the normal birth experience – the woman's perspective. B – The woman's solicitude in the disposition to be herself, experiencing care as being there in the parturition process.
Conclusion:
There is a mismatch between evidence-based practices, comprehensive care and the daily reality of care for women ready to give birth, which is linked to the inauthentic mode of care, constantly occupied, and to the they. We argue that the practices implemented in the parturition process should be based on comprehensive solicitude, centered on the woman's existential dimensions, and linked to the horizon of the existentiality and to the open way of being-in-the-world.
Keywords
Women; Pregnant women; Women's health