Implications of a new pregnancy in women's multiple pregnancy family - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v26i2.1595

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the implications of a new pregnancy in a family with multiple pregnancy cases. Thus, Ethnonursing qualitative method was chosen, applying Leininger's observation model, reflection and participation (1991), with 07 multiple pregnancy cases under prenatal care in the Family Development Center of Fortaleza. The results showed that women's multiple pregnancies basically depended on the relationship with their male mates, who exerted power and dominance over them. Such attitudes, involving subordination, submission self-denial are in strict accordance to gender concepts, which establish gender roles in man/woman relationships. Therefore, pregnancy and maternity are, even nowadays, ruled by myths, faiths and habits that invade the life of any women of multiple pregnancy by overloanding them in terms of silenced social violence.