The authors relate an experience in the organization of the System "A Place beside the Mother for the Newly Born Baby" in the Maternity Hospital "Odete Valadares", Belo Horizonte.
In the implantation of this system are the following objectives:
- To minister orientation adequate for the mother during her stay in the hospital, thus capacitating the mother in the COMPLETE CARE of her child;
- To stimulate maternal milke;
- Reduce the incidence of infection in the NEW BORN BABY;
- Reduce the incidente of rejection by the mother , to the New Born Baby.
The work desenvolved in the UNIT, proportions for the patients a greater opportunity to learn, considering that the greater percentage of patients admitted are primíparas and that, from the point of view of Education for Health reason, is the priority group, seeing the possibility of putting aside MISUNDERSTANDING.