Posicionamentos de pais na gravidez, parto e pós-parto

Abstract

It aims to understand the fathers/mens positions during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum of their partners/wives. To this end, it uses as a methodological tool a workshop, which provides the dialogue with eight men, their ages between 24 and 43, middle class and higher education level, who are living the fatherhood experience for the first time. It is supported on the theoretical-methodological framework of discursive practices and the production of meanings, based on the perspective of social constructionism. The positions were identified through the linguistic repertoires produced by the participants during the workshop and analyzed in dialogue with the literature about fatherhood. They are: “father who takes care”, “father that binds”, “father who educate”, “father who changes/adapts himself”, “participating father”, “watching father”, “father who doesn’t know/helpless”, “father who knows” and “father who does mediation”. These positions interact with the "new father" appointments in the literature, which correspond to a greater participation of the fathers in the care of the children, and emotional involvement in the relationship with them. The fatherhood, for these parents, is built in the paternal-filial relationship, by the affective bonding through care actions whose experience implies changes.