The paternal participation in the humanization birth process: an issue to be rethought

The Law 569 of the Health Ministry established the Pre-Natal and Birth Humanization Program, aiming at improving the care quality and diminishing maternal and perinatal morbid-mortality. Notwithstanding the efforts to humanize care in the pregnancy-puerperal period, there has been little growth regarding the father's participation in the arena of reproductive health. It is urgent to reconsider the issue of gender equity construction in this field. This study aims at reflecting about the paternal participation at the delivery occasion. The contemporariness offers a plurality of significant systems and each subject has to build his own presence in the world. Under this perspective, it is essential to search the current significances, their contradictions, ruptures from old significances, connections with speeches from different orders and finally conceiving paternity as a cultural issue.

Humanizing delivery; Woman's health; Family