Experiences in the process of teenage pregnancy parturition

Abstract

Objective: to know the adolescent puerperae experiences in the parturition process. Method: it had a qualitative approach of a descriptive type, and it was a data clipping from the multicenter research "Humanized Attention for Adolescent Parturition". The study participants were ten adolescent puerperae that had their parturitions at the hospital participating in the research from november 2008 to november 2009, which were selected in the database of the multicenter research. For analysis, the data were grouped in accordance with Minayo (2010). Results: it was obtained two themes as a result; puerperas' perceptions on the obstetrical care received in the center and health professionals in the process of parturition. Conclusion: it was evidenced that adolescent mothers that received the care they deemed ideal and committed to them, experienced the parturition process in a more pleasurable way.