Resumo

VERSIANI, Clara de Cássia; SOUZA, Iriene Ferraz de  e  SAMPAIO, Cristina Andrade. “Midwifing The Labor and Birth Journey” by a participant-guide. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2025, vol.27, n.1, ePTPCP17184.  Epub 13-Fev-2026. ISSN 1516-3687.  https://doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/eptpcp17184.en.

The active role of women in the labor and birth process is a central focus of humanized childbirth care models. This cartographic study aimed to understand the flows and living networks produced by a participant-guide in her search for humanized care, acting as the protagonist and manager of her own care production process. This qualitative research was based on the mapping of labor and birth care networks through the experience of a participant-guide who constructed her own history by navigating healthcare networks and other connections she wove throughout her life. This process leads us to a micro political dimension of healthcare, carried out through living networks and centered on the potential of soft technologies, emerging from the encounter with humanized childbirth and supported by a team that contributed to this experience. It is evident that such a trajectory of care remains distant from the reality experienced by many women who are entitled to this right. Comprehensive childbirth care must be consistently discussed in the spaces where it takes place.

Palavras-chave : labor; delivery environment; humanized delivery; user guide; cartography; trabalho de parto; entorno do parto; parto humanizado; usuária-guia; cartografia.

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