This is an exploratory study with qualitative approach that has as objectives: to characterize the puerpera that accompany the hospitalized newborn child and to know the experience of these women in the child's hospitalization. The collection of information happened in a support house, enclosure of a philanthropic hospital of Sobral Ceára (Brazil), in April of 2005. It was used semi-structured interview. Nine mothers participated in the study. The theoretical referential of analysis was the Pichon-Rivière Bond Theory. We identified the socioeconomic and obstetric characteristics of the puerpera and we analyzed the experience of these women in the newborn child's hospitalization, by psychosocial and social dynamics investigation. The study revealed feelings expressed by the mother, the bond mother-son, and the relationships with the family and the group. The understanding of the relationships and of the established bonds for the mother with their family and with the group in which is inserted it is configured in one of the first steps that the nurses can favour the adaptation of the same ones to the situation.
Postpartum Period; Newborn; Hospitalization; Nursing