Parteiras de Regência, ES: os múltiplos sentidos do ato de partejar / midives of Regencia, ES: the sensible multiples of the delivery assistance act

AUTOR(ES)

Mojgan Sabeti Hooshmand

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This qualitative study tried to catch the art of midwife practice of five ladies who have been exercising it in Regência, ES, as the only possibility of helping pregnant women at baby delivering in that region. During this essay, a theorical embasement was searched, which allowed to recognize the role of midwives, until mid 20th Century, as the only assistance for delivery as well as specifically feminine diseases. Even nowadays, in the countryside or faraway counties, midwives still are the only resource to turn to in health cases or baby delivery assistance, as verified in the present study. The half-structured interview was used as a data collection tool. Verbal thematic stories of lives where obtained, by means of reported stories of the interviewed, which where recorded in cassette tapes and transcripts, for content analysis development. All the interviewed midwives are from humble background, with little or none education who, despite living short of money, feel proud of not charging anything for the job. Most depend on their own children’s help to survive financially. Sometimes, they accept gifts in return but never money. The analysis of the subjects of this study reveals that the craft of midwives is faced as a mission in life, due to the natural gift they were given, which was discovered in an unexpected situation, or a real demand and, eventually, was developed by experience itself, as a service to the community, most of the times, with no structural support on behalf of the official Healthy system. Aware of this, it becomes more and more evident that there is need for effective engagement among midwives and the Regional health system, having in mind a qualified and better assistance to the local population, respecting the principles of SUS (Unified Health System).

ASSUNTO(S)

traditional midwives parto assistência à saúde parteiras tradicionais delivery parto humanizado midwife childbirth humanized parteira women’s health health assistance saúde da mulher

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