Research of the descriptive and exploratory type, with qualitative approach that had as objectives: describe the experiences detached by parents before the pregnancy and, to analyze these experiences from the perspective of affectivity, built by parents before the pregnancy. The participants had been six mothers and three fathers. The collection technique used was the interview in depth. The data had been submitted to the analysis for the thematic modality, emerging two categories: Living intense changes in life e; Living intense changes in the body. It is concluded that in the gestation, the confrontations can oscillate at disequilibrium moments and others of overcoming. In this way, the affectivity is connected to adaptive responses of the parents and the family.
Affect; Pregnancy; Family; Nursing