RATO, Paula Isabel. Ansiedades perinatais em mulheres com gravidez de risco e em mulheres com gravidez normal . []. , 16, 3, pp.405-413. ISSN 0870-8231.

The goal of the study is to compare quantitatively, as well as qualitatively, the perinatal anxieties of women suffering of hazardous pregnancy due to a history of fetal death, to the perinatal anxieties of women who have had a normal pregnancy. To accomplish this we used an interview and a scale of perinatal anxieties (PASS), on two groups of six women during the 24 to 48 post-labor hours. The entreview showed us that the type of anxieties is the same in the two groups of women and all are similar to the anxieties described by all the authors that are interested by the matters of maternity. The great difference between the two groups has its cause in the risk of the pregnancy - since the beginning until labor - with the worry of having another fetal death (as if they were afraid of their own incapacity of becoming mothers). Through the analysis of the scale, we can say that the only area where women with a hazardous pregnancy had a substantially higher level of anxiety, when compared to women with a normal pregnancy, was the puerperium, which suggested difficulties in what concerns the identification with the fetus and with the mother figure during pregnancy; these situations will have repercussions over the puerperium in the form of difficulties in motherhood, particularly in the mother-baby relationship.

: Perinatal anxieties; pregnancy; fetal death.

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