Abstract Objective This work aims at understanding the maternal experiences during hospitalization of premature infants in the NICU (Neonatal Intense Care Unit). Methods This work was based on qualitative study, done from May to June 2014, with thirteen postpartum women and their premature infants hospitalized in Neonatal units of two public hospitals in Feira de Santana – Bahia. The data were collected through recorded interviews and submitted to analysis of content. Results The maternal experience was marked by intense suffering, […]

Abstract This study aimed to know the reasons for non completion of the kangaroo position by the professional staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in the interior of Bahia. This is a qualitative study that was made through semi- structured interviews with fifteen health professionals at the neonatal unit previously referred. The content analysis showed that the severity of premature newborns and the use of ventilatory support are limiting factors for the realization of the kangaroo […]

Abstract It was studied the mothers’perceptions about baby bonding by facing with meningomyelocele congenital disorder. The aims was to identify the mothers’ feeling about those children, and their difficulty in building bonding to them. The data had been gathered through semi-structuralized interviews, with mothers of children with meningomyelocele, under eight months old, hospitalized at neonatal unit, Rio de Janeiro. The results showed that the more mothers were engaged in the current and future treatment of their babies the more were […]