title: [Experiencing skin to skin contact with the baby during the postpartum period as a mechanical act].
abstract: The objective was to understand the puerpera's experience during the first skin to skin contact with the newborn in the immediate postpartum period, the obstetric ward of a public hospital in a city in Bahia. Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, approved by the Ethics Committee and conducted with fourteen postpartum women, through semi-structured interviews in the period July-August 2011. The data were analyzed using Grounded Theory, identifying the phenomenon "Experiencing skin to skin contact as a mechanical act" and its three subcategories: "Encouraging the only contact", "Contact as a mechanical act" and "Being forced to initiate breastfeeding. "Encouraging the skin to skin contact and immediate breastfeeding occur mechanically, being highlighted only the contact, requiring the puerperas to initiate breastfeeding in sudden and abrupt manner, not respecting their willingness to perform or not this practice.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luciano Marques
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.affiliation: Prefeitura Municipal de Petrolina, Petrolina, PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Jucélia Cavalcante Rodrigues
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Evanilda Souza de Santana
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Jaqueline Santiago
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rosana Castelo Branco
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: de Santana
authors.affiliation: Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina de Camargo
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fonseca
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000523:psychology*; D012867:Skin; D014110:Touch