Repercussões subjetivas de perdas perinatais em gestações posteriores

Abstract

Fetal and neonatal deaths have a great impact on the lives of families who experience these losses, breaking with the expectations and dreams placed in the child who was to come. The present study ims to understand how neonatal and fetal losses impact the experience of subsequent pregnancies. This esearch is a clinical-qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. The study included 5 pregnant women with a history of neonatal and fetal losses included in theprenatal care at a public maternity hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro.The interviews were transcribed and floating readings of the material were carried out, which was later divided into two axes of analysis: 1) "It's omething I'll remember forever": the experience of the loss and perinatal grief. 2) "A fear that is out of the ordinary": the experience of pregnancy after a perinatal loss. It was identified that the fear of a new loss, the concern with the baby's health and an initial difficulty in bonding with this baby emerged as factors that marked this new pregnancy. It is important that pregnant women who have experienced perinatal losses receive a different view from prenatal health care teams.