ABSTRACT
Objective
To describe the experience of pregnant women at 37 weeks of gestation or more attended at the Nursing Consultation who had developed their delivery plan.
Method
Qualitative exploratory research with 19 pregnant women at 37 weeks of gestation or more with a bond to a low-risk maternity hospital in Curitiba, Paraná state, Brazil, who attended nursing consultation between November 2019 and March 2020. The data was collected through interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis.
Results
The pregnant women were unaware of issues related to childbirth, which contributes to the emergence of doubts, fears, and insecurities. They also had no knowledge, or had only superficial knowledge, of the delivery plan. The nursing consultation and the maternity’s delivery plan contributed to the clarification of doubts, the reduction of anxiety, the possibility of strengthening and empowering the pregnant woman and her companion in the face of the provision of information for vaginal delivery, and the establishment of a bond with the maternity.
Conclusions and implications for the practice
Adequate to reality and focused on the individuality of the pregnant woman, the nursing consultation and the birth plan were shown to be a space for health education and an educational tool, respectively, efficient for the nurse's performance and improvement of prenatal care.
Keywords:
Obstetric Nursing; Office Nursing; Pregnant Women; Humanizing Delivery; Prenatal Education