Abstract Prior notice of the qualitative research uses as a theorical reference the Symbolic Interacionism and methodological reference the Grounded Theory, held with parents of infants hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), with the goal of understanding the mean of parents bring playthings for their children in the NICU. The preliminary analysis of the data showed parents take playthings to taking a bit of the house to the hospital, trying to familiarize the child with the things of […]