title: [Female rituals: preceding maternity].
abstract: Throughout our lives, we pass through important stages of change, from the moment of our births until the moment of our deaths. These experiences entail social rituals. Pregnancy and childbirth are one of these changes in which women will encounter multiple rites, defined mainly by medical practices and beliefs. Every society has its rites which work to maintain an ideology. With a rite, we recognize all that a society considers correct. A woman during pregnancy will undergo those actions and interventions considered normal in this ritual process, with the final objective being to achieve motherhood.
authors.affiliation: Escuela universitaria de Enfermería, Universidad Rovira y Virgili, Tarragona.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Montes Muñoz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D008016:Life Change Events; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D013030:Spain