The study sought to understand the feelings experienced by women-mothers of neonatal surgery on his children, patients with congenital malformations. This is a qualitative research method based on the life history. We used structured interviews with eighteen women, mothers of infants undergoing surgical procedures in the neonatal period. Data collection was conducted between July and August 2009. The thematic analysis of narratives pointed to the expectation of "normalization" of the child and the life trajectories of women. Hospital admission is ambiguous: while wishing to create great expectations and forward to the surgery, they feel in conflict with multiple fears (of death, anesthesia, and chronicity). In the process of care to patients with congenital surgical malformations nursing must consider not only the technical view, but above all, the ambiguous feelings expressed by womenmothers, in an important phase of building emotional bonds with your child.
Obstetrical nursing; Neonatal nursing; Mothers; Congenital abnormalities; Surgery