title: [Experience of women in labor. Nurses' observations].
abstract: This study emerged from my own experience in Obstetric Nursing and my living in Obstetrics. I searched for comprehending the real meaning of delivery labor experiences as a situated phenomenon. It is a qualitative research with phenomenological approach. The lying-in women were the witnesses through the question: 'What was your daily experience in the pre-delivery room like?' Through analysis and hermeneutics of speeches, I have used the knowledge of Matin Heidegger's philosophical-theoretical referential. Thus, I managed to clarify that the parturient is fearful when left by herself in her experience, showing surprise for the labor of delivery is singular, noting down the pain as a possibility of the existential limit, being open to help and noticing the impersonality of care provided. With this watchful sense, I approached the comprehension of a lying-in woman as a being-in-a-world-with-health-professionals. This discovery indicated the possibility of new ways of caring in Obstetrics.
authors.affiliation: Depto de Fundamentos de Enfermagem, UFF.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Simões
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Souza
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D005086:Existentialism; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009773:Obstetric Nursing; D011247:Pregnancy