Narrativas sobre gestar, parir e puerperar durante a pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

We seek to understand how some women living in Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas, experienced their experiences of giving birth and giving birth during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on the narratives they considered important and chose to share. We position ourselves from a feminist perspective and anchor our theoretical-methodological framework in Narrative Research. Narrative interviews were conducted with four women, remotely and synchronously, who experienced their deliveries between May 2020 and April 2021. to share with me?”. From the transcription of interviews and recurrent reading, we sought to dialogue with themes that resonated with us from their narratives, articulating them with concepts identified in feminist literature: silences, obstetric violence and body-territory. We dialogue from them, proposing to be a voice with their voices, which tell us about their experiences of gestating, giving birth and postpartum crossed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Their reports speak of fears: the disease, the possible consequences, the impacts that the disease could have on the pregnancy and the baby's development; of the strangeness of experiencing an unseen pregnancy, a belly that grew and the neighbors didn't see, they didn't even know that a baby was on the way. They tell us about the need to put our foot down, to fight for the guarantee of rights that have already been won; they share the experience of a lonely and silent postpartum, even with so much to be said; of forgetting the existence of the pandemic, because in the face of the threat of an invisible virus, the threat of obstetric violence already experienced, made invisible and silenced, screamed louder.