Abstract

MATA, Greicy Duarte da; CHERER, Evandro de Quadros  and  CHATELARD, Daniela Scheinkman. Prematurity and subjective constitution: considerations on care at a neonatal intensive care unit. Estilos clin. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.3, pp.428-441. ISSN 1415-7128.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p428-441.

Every newborn baby needs the investment of someone who assumes in it a subject and symbolically situates it. In a prematurity context, some difficulties can be present, therefore reveling the importance of interventions that enables the facilitation of this elaboration process of intense changes which are demanded by maternity experience itself and by long hospitalization in a neonatal intensive care unit. This study is an experience report that presents and discusses some cases attended by the authors in a public hospital maternity ambulatory in Brasilia, Brazil, where it was possible to listen to social discourse registered by the mothers in the newborns history.

Keywords : Maternity; family myth; prematurity; subjective constitution.

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