SCARABELO, C. F. S. Experiência de maternagem com bebês prematuros no contexto hospitalar [Mothering experiences with premature babies in the hospital contexto]. Master’s Dissertation – Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis. Assis (SP), 2017.
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Mothering is considered the way how a woman can put herself available to her child in a way to attend his/her demands, making the three essential functions described by Winnicott. Some factors can make the mothering relationship easy or difficult in the beginning of the baby’s life. Thus, this work intended to comprehend the mother care experience in premature babies’ mothers which relationship is possible through the hospital apparatus, that according to studies, for the fact that the baby-mother relationship is not close, the hospital would be a complicator to the establishment of the mothering. The psychoanalytical approach, based on Winnicott’s thoughts, helps us to think about these points from clinical and qualitative contents. In this research five women that were in the rooming of the Regional Hospital at Assis took part, because of the premature birth of their child. With each participant was a semi-structured interview and the Thematic Drawing-and-Story Procedure application. The obtained results with the techniques’ application were analyzed using the free inspection method (Draw-Story with Theme) and after all the content were submitted to theme contents analyses. The analyzed data showed that besides the possibility of the women being close to her babies, they show difficulties to recognize themselves in the motherhood and to perform the mothering function. Four thematic categories of content analysis were listed (the mother who presents herself; the premature birth, being a mother compared to the child’s hospitalization and; the reflexes of the rooming in the mothering), that contributed to the comprehension of the inherents difficulties to the premature birth into the mothering exercise, even though the rooming’s goal is to make the mothers’ and babies’ contact easy.