Descriptive research with qualitative approach, that aimed to analyze the feelings of the HIV seropositive pregnant woman, in a conjoined lodging, faces the impossibility of breast feeding. For such, was carried trough recorded interviews in magnet tapes in the period from January trough may of 2006 with 12 women interned in a conjoined lodging from two hospitals of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The interviews, after its transcription, allowed the creation of five categories which comprehended feelings as: deny, envy, sadness, inutility, fear, impotence and acceptance. By analysis of these feelings it was observed that the HIV positive woman, impossibilited of breast feeding, experiences a very painful reality that influences her way of life, her health and of her child. Therefore, the Nursing needs to comprehend and incorporate in its care, besides the biological aspects, the emotional, social and cultural ones that enclose the woman, to make possible a better assistance.
Nursing; Breast Feeding; AIDS; Women's Health
