A vivência da mulher-mãe no alojamento materno durante a internação do recém-nascido na unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the meanings that mothers of just born babies put into the Neonatal Intensive Therapy Unit (NITU) ascribe to their permanence in the Mothers Lodge of Sofia Feldman hospital. This study is characterized as qualitative, descriptive exploratory, oriented by the boarding dialectical. This study took place in the Sofia Feldman Hospital, situated in Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais. This Hospital is a philanthropic institution that assists women and newborn. The subjects of the research are 35 women that stayed inthe Mothers Lodge during the permanence of their children in the NITU. The data collection happened from 10/26 to 11/17/05, through participative observance, focal group, field journal of the participant and field journal of the researcher. The data obtained in the focal groups and in the field journals of the participants was submitted to content analysis according to the orientation of Bardin (1977). Two empiric categories and their respective subcategories emerged from the data analysis: The condition of a woman-mother with a just born child in the NICU : experienced feelings: the uncertainty and the fear of losing the child; the guilt; the faith and the religiosity; the power of the just born child; The permanence in the Mothers Lodge: the experience of the hospital space; the living together between the women-mothers; the demands of the woman and of the family; the received support; the discovery of newsenses; commitment, participation and learning related to the child care. The results reveal sentiments experienced by the women-mothers in the condition of mother of a just born child that is in the NITU, showing that the main reason for the permanence in the Mother Lodge is the possibility of staying with the child and participating of the child care. During their permanence in the Mothers Lodge, the woman-mother builds a support net with the other women-mothers that are experiencing the same situation, with the health team, and with the family. This net is a facilitator of her permanence. The results also show that despite the nonstop permanence of the woman-mother in the institution, shecannot be an effective part of the child care. That points out the need toreorganize the work process and to restructure the work of the healthprofessionals in order to attend the needs of the just born child and his/hers mother/family, considering the integrality and the humanization of the assistance. The study allows to recognize an advance in the assistance offered to the just born child, to the mother and to the family. On the other hand, shows that the woman-mothers desire to participate of her childs care faces the limitations related to the organization of the health professionals work process.