Perda do filho, doação de leite humano e luto familiar

Abstract

Death is part of the life cycle of every human being, though not always latter is prepared to face, and when it comes to the death of a child, parents need the help of professionals to the elaboration of mourning. The study aimed to carry out care and supervision of the couple mourning the loss of a child; analyze the effects of this monitoring; draw, with families participating host technology in the preparation of mourning the loss of his son and see what is the decision of this woman / mother about the fate of her milk production after the death of her newborn son (NB) or when intrauterine death occurred. We carried out an action-research, since we believe that in this methodology the researcher goes beyond situational diagnosis, it falls into the studied environment, have effective participation and consequently there is the possibility of understanding reality for effective transformation. The results occur during the process, which provides satisfaction to the researcher and participants to educate each other, everyone is acting subjects and willing to think together. Was coordinated up a support / semi-open type group, with 14 host couples mourning the loss of his son. Regarding the frequency of group sessions, met once a week, on Saturdays, at the Laboratory of Alternative Health Practices (LabPas), Department of Nursing of, Federal University of Ceará, for nine months, totaling 30 group meetings. The average duration of each session was 90 minutes, totaling 2700 minutes or 45 hours of coexistence of survey participants, in addition to home visits and telephone contacts. Three steps made the group process - hosting, development and evaluation. The host came through relaxation techniques and creative imagination anchored by a theme; development was driven by a guiding question, and evaluated by a word or phrase. The meetings were finalized by a group hug. The collection period elapsed between January 7 and September 29, 2012. The research sites were two large maternity units, references the city of Fortaleza, capital of Ceará / Brazil, which supplied the phones of couples who lost NB children, the households where the interviews took place. We assessed the 30 group meetings from an idealized diagram based on Loomis (1979). The results were analyzed by means of triangulation of data, which allows the use of different data collection techniques such as interviews, group formation and systematic observation. It was gathered up what was initially perceived as learning resulting in knowledge and then proposed a technology for host families who lost their children, which certainly could serve as a model of care. It is believed that health promotion should be represented by the pyramid of power, which translates into accumulated knowledge, skills and attitudes for a silent presence, listening therapy, the look in the eye, and embrace the word timely therapeutic. We agree with the many thinkers when they say that the path is made by walking. In this thesis, were welcomed couples who lost their children or newborns who died in the womb of their mothers, to help them believe they can reframe their lives. The couple returned to organize their lives, to cuddle up and returned to their work, and in their testimonies realized that the group meetings helped them to believe that one day this pain will be replaced by a longing without pain, a reminder of the healthy beloved son who will be at the heart of these parents. In this phase of elaboration of mourning, certainly, they are refreshed and more resistant to possible pains with which life surprises everyone. Of the 41 mothers consulted about which destination would give the milk produced after the death of a child or NB still in her womb, 21 (71%), a significant percentage, said they would have been milk donors, if they had the opportunity to choice.