Feelings of the mothers with babies hospitalized in neonatal intensive care unit

Abstract

This study aimed at understanding the feelings of the puerperas with babies hospitalized in neonatal intensive care unit. This is a descriptive exploratory research with qualitative approach accomplished with six mothers whose babies were hospitalized in neonatal intensive or intermediate care unit in a maternity hospital in Fortaleza, Ceará. The information were obtained through structured individual interviews and displaced in two categories of analysis: Feelings that emerge from the discovery that the newborn will need hospitalization and those experienced during the process of hospitalization of the newborn. We conclude that a mother who is experiencing the hospitalization of a newborn child needs effective care as a means of obtaining a better way of facing such a crisis, avoiding this that such a situation bring damage to the physical and emotional health of the mother