Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Trata-se de um estudo de natureza histórico-social, cujo objeto são as lutas simbólicas para criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho. A delimitação temporal do estudo abrange o período de 2002 a 2004. Os objetivos da pesquisa são: descrever as circunstâncias que determinaram a criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho (CPDCF) no Rio de Janeiro; analisar as lutas empreendidas pelos diferentes agentes para a criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho; e discutir os efeitos simbólicos das lutas para as enfermeiras no campo da obstetrícia. A pesquisa teve como suporte teórico os conceitos do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu e utilizou o método da história oral temática. O estudo contou com treze agentes, cujas entrevistas foram gravadas e transcritas, respeitando-se os aspectos éticos da Resolução 196/96. As fontes primárias do estudo foram os depoimentos, legislações, decisões judiciais, projetos, atas e artigos. Os resultados revelam que as concepções do Movimento Feminista, os pressupostos teóricos do movimento de humanização do parto e nascimento, a posição política liderada pela OMS e pelo Ministério da Saúde e as condições sociais e políticas no município do Rio de Janeiro se constituíram em estímulos para a criação da CPDCF. Diante disso, agentes do campo obstétrico se envolveram em lutas simbólicas, e associações da classe médica passaram a lutar contra a criação e implantação da CPDCF. Nessa luta, as enfermeiras foram instigadas a transformar em práticas as disposições incorporadas (habitus) durante sua trajetória social e profissional, quando fizeram alianças com diversos segmentos sociais, buscando implantar a CPDCF e, posteriormente, manter essa unidade de saúde como um espaço da enfermagem obstétrica. Com a implantação da CPDCF, as enfermeiras obstétricas aumentaram seu capital global, conquistando autonomia, o que lhes proporcionou ocupação de posição em uma estrutura hierarquizada e hegemonicamente médica, gerando prestígio para essas profissionais e publicidade para os resultados de seus trabalhos, embora isso seja limitado a alguns espaços da SMS/RJ. A falta de articulação da enfermagem foi considerada um dificultador para a expansão do trabalho das enfermeiras obstétricas e desse modelo assistencial, corroborando o modelo medicalizado de assistência a mulher em processo de parturição, predominante nas unidades de saúde do município. Face às questões levantadas no estudo, dá-se como sugestão que os gestores da saúde estimulem a criação de ambientes favoráveis ao parto e nascimento saudáveis, e que as associações de classe da enfermagem se articulem para desenvolver estratégias de apoio ao trabalho das enfermeiras obstétricas. / It is a historical-social study, whose object is the symbolic fights for creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House (CPDCF). The temporary delimitation of the study includes the period from 2002 to 2004. The aims of the research are: to describe the circumstances that determined the creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House in Rio de Janeiro; to analyze the fights undertaken by the different agents for the creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House; and to discuss the symbolic effects of the fights for the nurses in the field of obstetrics. The research has as theoretical support the concepts of the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and uses the method of thematic oral history. The study counted on thirteen agents, whose interviews were recorded and transcribed, being respected the ethical aspects of the Resolution 196/96. The primary sources of the study were interviews, legislations, judgments, projects, minutes and articles. The results revealed that conceptions of the Feminist Movement, theoretical assumptions of the movement of humanizing delivery, political position led by WHO and Brazils Health Ministry and social and political conditions in the district of Rio de Janeiro constituted in incentives for the creation of the CPDCF. Agents of the obstetric field engaged themselves in symbolical fights. Therefore, associations of the medical class started to struggle against the creation and implantation of CPDCF. Thereby, nurses were stimulated to transform in practices their habitus during their social and professional path, making alliances with several social segments, looking for implant CPDCF and, later on, maintain that unit of health as a space of the obstetric nursing. With the implantation of CPDCF, the obstetric nurses increased their global capital, earned autonomy and occupied positions at the field structure, achieving prestige for those professionals and publicity for the results of their work, although that is limited in some spaces of the Health Department of Rio de Janeiro City. The lack of articulation of nursing professionals was considered the problem to expand the obstetric nurses' work and care model, corroborating to the medical model, predominant in the Rio de Janeiros health units. To sum up, it`s suggested that health managers stimulate the creation of favorable places to the healthy childbirth and, that professionals of nursing associations pronounce to develop support strategies to the obstetric nurses' work.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Trata-se de um estudo de natureza histórico-social, cujo objeto são as lutas simbólicas para criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho. A delimitação temporal do estudo abrange o período de 2002 a 2004. Os objetivos da pesquisa são: descrever as circunstâncias que determinaram a criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho (CPDCF) no Rio de Janeiro; analisar as lutas empreendidas pelos diferentes agentes para a criação e implantação da Casa de Parto David Capistrano Filho; e discutir os efeitos simbólicos das lutas para as enfermeiras no campo da obstetrícia. A pesquisa teve como suporte teórico os conceitos do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu e utilizou o método da história oral temática. O estudo contou com treze agentes, cujas entrevistas foram gravadas e transcritas, respeitando-se os aspectos éticos da Resolução 196/96. As fontes primárias do estudo foram os depoimentos, legislações, decisões judiciais, projetos, atas e artigos. Os resultados revelam que as concepções do Movimento Feminista, os pressupostos teóricos do movimento de humanização do parto e nascimento, a posição política liderada pela OMS e pelo Ministério da Saúde e as condições sociais e políticas no município do Rio de Janeiro se constituíram em estímulos para a criação da CPDCF. Diante disso, agentes do campo obstétrico se envolveram em lutas simbólicas, e associações da classe médica passaram a lutar contra a criação e implantação da CPDCF. Nessa luta, as enfermeiras foram instigadas a transformar em práticas as disposições incorporadas (habitus) durante sua trajetória social e profissional, quando fizeram alianças com diversos segmentos sociais, buscando implantar a CPDCF e, posteriormente, manter essa unidade de saúde como um espaço da enfermagem obstétrica. Com a implantação da CPDCF, as enfermeiras obstétricas aumentaram seu capital global, conquistando autonomia, o que lhes proporcionou ocupação de posição em uma estrutura hierarquizada e hegemonicamente médica, gerando prestígio para essas profissionais e publicidade para os resultados de seus trabalhos, embora isso seja limitado a alguns espaços da SMS/RJ. A falta de articulação da enfermagem foi considerada um dificultador para a expansão do trabalho das enfermeiras obstétricas e desse modelo assistencial, corroborando o modelo medicalizado de assistência a mulher em processo de parturição, predominante nas unidades de saúde do município. Face às questões levantadas no estudo, dá-se como sugestão que os gestores da saúde estimulem a criação de ambientes favoráveis ao parto e nascimento saudáveis, e que as associações de classe da enfermagem se articulem para desenvolver estratégias de apoio ao trabalho das enfermeiras obstétricas. / It is a historical-social study, whose object is the symbolic fights for creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House (CPDCF). The temporary delimitation of the study includes the period from 2002 to 2004. The aims of the research are: to describe the circumstances that determined the creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House in Rio de Janeiro; to analyze the fights undertaken by the different agents for the creation and implantation of the David Capistrano Filho Childbirth House; and to discuss the symbolic effects of the fights for the nurses in the field of obstetrics. The research has as theoretical support the concepts of the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and uses the method of thematic oral history. The study counted on thirteen agents, whose interviews were recorded and transcribed, being respected the ethical aspects of the Resolution 196/96. The primary sources of the study were interviews, legislations, judgments, projects, minutes and articles. The results revealed that conceptions of the Feminist Movement, theoretical assumptions of the movement of humanizing delivery, political position led by WHO and Brazils Health Ministry and social and political conditions in the district of Rio de Janeiro constituted in incentives for the creation of the CPDCF. Agents of the obstetric field engaged themselves in symbolical fights. Therefore, associations of the medical class started to struggle against the creation and implantation of CPDCF. Thereby, nurses were stimulated to transform in practices their habitus during their social and professional path, making alliances with several social segments, looking for implant CPDCF and, later on, maintain that unit of health as a space of the obstetric nursing. With the implantation of CPDCF, the obstetric nurses increased their global capital, earned autonomy and occupied positions at the field structure, achieving prestige for those professionals and publicity for the results of their work, although that is limited in some spaces of the Health Department of Rio de Janeiro City. The lack of articulation of nursing professionals was considered the problem to expand the obstetric nurses' work and care model, corroborating to the medical model, predominant in the Rio de Janeiros health units. To sum up, it`s suggested that health managers stimulate the creation of favorable places to the healthy childbirth and, that professionals of nursing associations pronounce to develop support strategies to the obstetric nurses' work.

A Casa do Parto de Sapopemba (CPS) é uma unidade autônoma, isolada do hospital, integrada ao Sistema Único de Saúde. Atende mulheres com gestação de baixo risco e a assistência é prestada exclusivamente por obstetrizes e enfermeiras obstétricas. Este modelo tem sido criticado em relação à segurança para a mulher e recém-nascido. A literatura aponta menos intervenções desnecessárias e maiores níveis de satisfação das mulheres atendidas em casas de parto. No Brasil existem poucos estudos sobre o tema. Os objetivos deste estudo, do tipo caso-controle, foram: descrever as remoções neonatais segundo o motivo, tempo de vida, local e desfecho; identificar os fatores de risco associados à remoção. Ocorreram 2.840 partos na CPS no período de setembro de 1998 a agosto de 2005. Os casos foram todos os recém-nascidos removidos da CPS para hospitais de referência (n=32) no período do estudo. Os controles foram recém-nascidos da CPS, nascidos no mesmo período e que não foram removidos (n=64). Os dados foram coletados dos prontuários e registro sobre os partos da instituição. Foi realizada análise univariada e de regressão logística múltipla dos dados. A prevalência de remoções e a taxa de mortalidade neonatal foi de 1,1% e 1/1.000 nascidos vivos, respectivamente. O desconforto respiratório foi o motivo principal para a remoção neonatal seguido de suspeita de aspiração de mecônio, hipotonia e asfixia neonatal. O Hospital Geral de Vila Alpina recebeu 51,6 % das remoções e o Amparo Maternal 32,6%. No momento da remoção, o tempo de vida do recém-nascido variou entre 5 minutos e 30 horas (média=8 horas; mediana=5 horas; dp=8,3 horas). Os fatores de risco para remoção neonatal foram: intercorrências no trabalho de parto e parto (OR=5,5; IC 95% 1,06 – 28,26), hábito de fumar durante a gestação (OR=4,1; IC 95% 1,03 – 16,33) e Índice de Apgar igual ou menor que sete no primeiro minuto de vida (OR=7,8; IC 95% 1,62 – 37,03). As taxas de remoção e mortalidade neonatal encontradas, similares ou inferiores a estudos internacionais, são importantes indicadores da qualidade do atendimento na CPS. Acredita-se que o conhecimento dos fatores de risco para remoção possa contribuir para o aprimoramento da assistência, pela identificação de situações que apontam para um maior risco de complicações neonatais. / The Sapopemba Birth Center (SBC) is a public free-standing maternity unit, isolated from the reference hospital. Obstetric care for low-risk women is offered by midwives and nurse-midwives. This model of care has been questioned concerning women and newborns safety. Studies show less unnecessary interventions and higher level of satisfaction of women assisted in birth centers. There are few studies on this subject in Brazil. This case-control study aimed to: describe neonatal transfers according to the reasons, newborn lifetime, backup hospital and conditions of newborns after transfer; identify risk factors associated with neonatal transfers in this setting. There were 2,840 births in the SBC during the study period, from September 1998 to August 2005. Cases were all newborns transferred from the SBC to referenced hospitals (32) during the study period. Controls were selected from newborns delivered at the SBC in the same period and who were not transferred to hospital (64). Data were collected from records available at the birth center. Unvaried and multiple analysis was performed using conditional logistic regression. The neonatal transfer and mortality rates were 1.1% and 1/1,000, respectively. Respiratory distress was the main reason for transfer, followed by suspected aspiration of meconium, hypotonia and neonatal asphyxia. The Vila Alpina General Hospital received 51.6% of transfers from the SBC and the Amparo Maternal, 32.6%. In the moment of transfer, the newborn’s lifetime varied from 5 minutes to 30 hours (mean = 8 hours; median = 5 hours; sd = 8,3 hours). Risk factors associated with neonatal transfers were: labor and intrapartum complications (OR = 5.5; CI 95% 1.06 – 28.26); smoking during pregnancy (OR = 4.1; CI 95% 1.03 – 16.33); first minute Apgar score bellow eight (OR = 7.8; CI 95% 1.62 – 37.03). Neonatal mortality and transfer rates found in this study were similar or lower comparing to the international studies and they represent an important index of quality related to the assistance given in the SBC. The knowledge of risk factors associated with neonatal transfers from this birth center may contribute for the improvement of care, by the identification of the situations that show a higher risk of neonatal complications.

1 ABSTRACT The issue of births outside a medical facility is currently a controversial topic between specialists as well as in the public sector. While the specialists concur in refusing home births, the society is divided. There are voices that refuse home births but there are also plenty of people who support the right of mothers to give birth outside of a medical facility. Very sensitive topic is the legal and ethical aspects of the protection of unborn children and the issue of a safely conducted delivery. In the last decades, the life value of an unborn child has been seen as an ethical problem. The right to life is one of the fundamental human rights, which is enshrined in the constitutional system of the Czech Republic and also in the international human rights conventions. Because there are different opinions regarding this issue, it is necessary to establish a view that is widely accepted so that legal standards can be approved provided that the opinions of minorities are being respected. The main objective of this presented dissertation was to ascertain why are people losing confidence in a doctor's role during delivery and what is the reason for some of the mothers being unsatisfied with current institutional system of obstetrics. On the basis of these factual findings, which emerged during the...

Pregnancies and childbirths are not just biological or medical events. Childbirths are also emotionally intense situations, not only for the parents-to-be but also for those who work in delivery care. In addition, pregnancies and childbirths are sociocultural situations; there are norms regarding the normal birth. The study investigates how future midwives learn about the interactive and emotional work involved in supporting women in delivery care. It focuses on norms about the normal birthing trajectory and on how a midwife should encounter patients’ feelings and handle her own feelings in a “proper” way. Based on observations of collaborative group discussions within Swedish universitybased midwifery education, the study shows how students negotiate the appropriate feeling norms in normal birth, as well as in complicated and even tragic situations. In focus are their discussions on how to support the birthing women, their partners, and the babies, and the categorization work needed to recognize potential deviations from the normal birth. The study is based on a situated learning perspective on education, and combines sociological and anthropological approaches to emotions to elucidate how students within midwifery education negotiate the professional handling of normal and complicated births and the attendant feeling norms. / Graviditeter och förlossningar är inte bara biologiska eller medicinska händelser. Förlossningar är också känslomässigt intensiva situationer, både för de blivande föräldrarna och för dem som arbetar inom förlossningsvård. Graviditeter och förlossningar kan dessutom ses som sociokulturella händelser och det finns normer om den normala förlossningen. I avhandlingen undersöks hur framtida barnmorskor lär sig att stödja kvinnor inom förlossningsvården och det interaktiva och emotionella arbete som det innebär. Avhandlingen fokuserar på normer om den normala  förlossningstrajektorian samt hur en barnmorska ska bemöta patienternas känslor och hantera sina egna känslor på ett ”korrekt” sätt. Baserat på observationer av basgruppsgruppdiskussioner under den universitetsförlagda delen av en barnmorskeutbildning, visar studien hur barnmorskestudenter förhandlar känslonormer i relation till normal förlossning samt till komplicerade och även tragiska situationer. I fokus är studenternas diskussioner om hur de kan stödja de födande kvinnor, deras partners och barn samt den kategorisering som behövs för att identifiera eventuella avvikelser från den normala förlossningen. Studien bygger på ett situerat lärandeperspektiv på utbildning och kombinerar sociologiska och antropologiska förhållningssätt till känslor för att på så sätt belysa hur studenter inom en barnmorskeutbildning förhandlar hur normala och komplicerade förlossningar bör hanteras och de känslonormer som framkommer.

The study explored cultural perspectives of the Zimbabwean Ndebele on alternative modes of childbirth. A qualitative generic, exploratory and descriptive design guided the study. The problem is that alternative modes of birthing are not acceptable to the Zimbabwean Ndebele. Women who give birth through alternative modes of birthing, which include caesarean section (CS) instrumental deliveries (ID) and any other unnatural modes are stigmatised. Data were collected from purposively selected samples of women who had given birth through alternative modes of birthing, spouses, mothers-in-law, community elders, sangomas (traditional healers) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) using individual unstructured in-depth interviews, structured interviews and focus group interviews (FGIs). Data were analysed through use of qualitative content analysis which involved verbatim transcripts. Interpretations of narrations of data and script reviewing were done while simultaneously listening to audio-tapes which were transcribed in the IsiNdebele the language that was used to collect data. Data were then translated into English to accommodate all readers. Accounts of all the informants that were interviewed point to effects of supernatural ancestral powers, infidelity and use of traditional and herbal medicines as cause for “tiedness” (labour complications), a concept that showed a strong thread throughout the study. Study findings illuminated that traditional practices are culture-bound and the desire is to perpetuate the valued culture. Recommendations made from the study are; cultural orientation of local and foreign health workers, cultural consultation and collaboration with sangomas (traditional healers) and particular recognition of the significance of the study as a cultural heritage of the Zimbabwean Ndebele society. Further research on how women and their spouses cope with the grieving process after experiencing the crisis and grief following CS is recommended. With all the recommended areas addressed, Zimbabwean Ndebele would find alternative modes of birthing acceptable. / Health Studies / D. Lit. et Phil. (Health Studies)

Generations of women’s health workers, writers, activists, and academics have tended to present midwifery as the opposite of obstetrics; to summon the appealing association of midwifery by advocating ‘tradition and nature’ over ‘modernity and medicalization;’ and to invoke the melodrama of the subordination of female patients by and to male doctors. This thesis suggests that it is much more productive (and historically accurate) to think of the shifting roles and identities of childbirth practitioners and their clients in terms of “boundary work” rather than the oft-touted dichotomy of domination/resistance. The thesis navigates Enlightenment theories of body and nature and moves to explore the example of the Foucaultian “clinic” to illustrate a relatively unstable foundation on which the biomedical clinic appears not as an entity trapped in time and space, but always already subject to change and negotiation. A discussion of maternal health policy and the roles of birthing women in actively shaping the care they receive brings home the central argument that what is crucial to the ever-developing birthing models is not resisting that which appears to dominate, but affirming a practice that more adequately meets the needs of birthing women in BC today.

Generations of women’s health workers, writers, activists, and academics have tended to present midwifery as the opposite of obstetrics; to summon the appealing association of midwifery by advocating ‘tradition and nature’ over ‘modernity and medicalization;’ and to invoke the melodrama of the subordination of female patients by and to male doctors. This thesis suggests that it is much more productive (and historically accurate) to think of the shifting roles and identities of childbirth practitioners and their clients in terms of “boundary work” rather than the oft-touted dichotomy of domination/resistance. The thesis navigates Enlightenment theories of body and nature and moves to explore the example of the Foucaultian “clinic” to illustrate a relatively unstable foundation on which the biomedical clinic appears not as an entity trapped in time and space, but always already subject to change and negotiation. A discussion of maternal health policy and the roles of birthing women in actively shaping the care they receive brings home the central argument that what is crucial to the ever-developing birthing models is not resisting that which appears to dominate, but affirming a practice that more adequately meets the needs of birthing women in BC today.

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The study explored cultural perspectives of the Zimbabwean Ndebele on alternative modes of childbirth. A qualitative generic, exploratory and descriptive design guided the study. The problem is that alternative modes of birthing are not acceptable to the Zimbabwean Ndebele. Women who give birth through alternative modes of birthing, which include caesarean section (CS) instrumental deliveries (ID) and any other unnatural modes are stigmatised. Data were collected from purposively selected samples of women who had given birth through alternative modes of birthing, spouses, mothers-in-law, community elders, sangomas (traditional healers) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) using individual unstructured in-depth interviews, structured interviews and focus group interviews (FGIs). Data were analysed through use of qualitative content analysis which involved verbatim transcripts. Interpretations of narrations of data and script reviewing were done while simultaneously listening to audio-tapes which were transcribed in the IsiNdebele the language that was used to collect data. Data were then translated into English to accommodate all readers. Accounts of all the informants that were interviewed point to effects of supernatural ancestral powers, infidelity and use of traditional and herbal medicines as cause for “tiedness” (labour complications), a concept that showed a strong thread throughout the study. Study findings illuminated that traditional practices are culture-bound and the desire is to perpetuate the valued culture. Recommendations made from the study are; cultural orientation of local and foreign health workers, cultural consultation and collaboration with sangomas (traditional healers) and particular recognition of the significance of the study as a cultural heritage of the Zimbabwean Ndebele society. Further research on how women and their spouses cope with the grieving process after experiencing the crisis and grief following CS is recommended. With all the recommended areas addressed, Zimbabwean Ndebele would find alternative modes of birthing acceptable. / Health Studies / D. Lit. et Phil. (Health Studies)