Multiprofessionality in extended care during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Abstract

First of all, regarding to the contextualization of the occurrence of pregnancy. Obstetrics and childbirth assistance have a history that is marked by great controversies and controversies in situations involving childbirth and birth, a ritual event so celebrated in our society. Healthy motherhood includes anxieties, conflicts, experiences of satisfaction and pleasure, like all human experiences. There is a need for a change of identity and a new definition of roles in the family and society. Such transformations are also associated with social, psychological, spiritual and cultural changes.