"O significado da maternidade na adolescência"

Abstract

The surpose of this study is to search the understanding of the meaning of maternity during the adolescence. The research has been done in Porto Alegre city. It has been used the phenomenological qualitative methodology. The interviews with six adolescents aged between 15 and 17, which were in the post-birth period, have been taken place. The semi-structured interviews turned possible the collection of information and the knowledge of young mothers life experience origin. The phenomenological method was epplied in the analysis of the information accordingly to what Giorgi (1985) and Comiotto (1992) proposed. The adolescent mothers narratives, their world point-of-view jull of wisches, fantasies, conflicts and contradictions permitted to find out about essences and their dimenssions. The essences which stand out are: The meaning of maternity which makes a link between adolescents julings and mother's role; family and emotional relationship, which evidences that parents , partner's and other relatives support is very important; life projects which relates interrupted plans because of pregnancy and readequacy of adolescents body image after the pregnancy; and finally, educational factors and responsible maternity, which relate the young women's Knowledge about contraceptive methods, care with the child and relapsing into pregnancy in adolescence. This research presents suggestions of intervention that can modify the situation of the pregnancy during adolescence and favor stimulus to responsible maternity through a work with multidisciplinaries groups which involve the adolescents in a holistic way, integrating them with their family.