PAINS AND PLEASURES IN CHILDBIRTH: MEETING AND MISMATCHES OF WOMEN

Abstract

Introduction: The way we visualize or think about childbirth, whether painfully or pleasurable, being a natural or medical apparition, depends on how culture reacts about it, changing from place to place. Objective: To analyze and study the feminine in the social and cultural context of today, researching how women stand in terms of sexuality and motherhood, enabling a different way of perceiving the unveiling of this process and its diverse ways of presenting themselves, thus allowing discoveries about the revelations of women's encounters and mismatches, as well as their pains and the emergence of pleasure in the act of birth. Methods: The study was carried out through qualitative research of the data, with an exploratory approach. In the investigation method, projective techniques were used through images, considering that this type of research involves the use of stimuli that allowed participants to project their subjective beliefs into other objects. Results: Given what was identified in the research, pain and pleasure in childbirth can walk together and actually walk, making childbirth a moment full of signifiers and meanings that will be different in each woman. Conclusion: Thus, we conclude that the factors that stood out most in the conjuncture of pain and pleasure in childbirth, through the meetings and mismatches of the woman in this process, were the personal contents of each woman, which made all the difference in the way of feeling the delivery.