Looked for to investigate the existence of the postpartum home for the woman starting from his/her perception concerning the feelings, changes and situations of that period. In a qualitative approach, we investigated eight women, in the 15th and 30th days of postpartum, attended in consultation of nursing of revision puerperal in the Basic Unit of Health (UBS/SMS/RJ). For analysis of the data we used the technique of content analysis, where it emerged the following categories: Service of the expectations, Situation of the Interpersonal Relationship, Situation of the Intrapersonal Relationship (feelings and sensations; relationship with the body). We verified that the witness lived the postpartum with satisfaction, however we also identified a depreciation of the being woman and of the care of herself on behalf of the attention to the newly born. We noticed the importance of the family participation in the maternal process and the accomplishment of a postpartum attendance that it approaches the real feelings of that period, of the rescue of the autonomy on themself and other aspects of the subjectivity of the women in the postpartum.
Period Postpartum; Woman's Health; Housing; Nursing