Perceptions of motherhood, obstetric risk and family planning in women with chronic illness who were mothers [Percepções da maternidade, risco obstétrico e planejamento familiar em mulheres com doenças crônicas que eram mães] [Percepciones sobre maternidad, riesgo obstétrico y planificación familiar en mujeres con enfermedad crónica que fueron madres] Article uri icon

abstract

  • Objective: To analyze the perceptions that a group of women have about maternity, obstetric risk and family planning who, knowing that they were diagnosed with chronic diseases, assumed the experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Methodology: Qualitative study. The informants were summoned through convenience sampling and “snowballing”. Individual semi-structured interviews were applied to nine women who recognized themselves as having a chronic noncommunicable disease. The data analysis was carried out with the Grounded Theory proposal with emergent design. Results: Motherhood is considered an unavoidable event in the life project of women, even those who have been informed of the risk. There is little awareness of the impact the disease can have on your reproductive life. Family planning is seen as a strategy for procreation, classifying it as a general option for all people, without being able to elucidate its relevance for their individual situation. There is also a late identification of risk pregnancies and a delayed prenatal control. Conclusions: The communication of reproductive risk is ineffective because it is constructed outside the social imaginary of women, family planning is seen as an imposition and not as a human right of women. © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.

publication date

  • 2022-01-01