[Experiencing skin to skin contact with the baby during the postpartum period as a mechanical act].

The objective was to understand the puerpera's experience during the first skin to skin contact with the newborn in the immediate postpartum period, the obstetric ward of a public hospital in a city in Bahia. Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, approved by the Ethics Committee and conducted with fourteen postpartum women, through semi-structured interviews in the period July-August 2011. The data were analyzed using Grounded Theory, identifying the phenomenon "Experiencing skin to skin contact as a mechanical act" and its three subcategories: "Encouraging the only contact", "Contact as a mechanical act" and "Being forced to initiate breastfeeding.

[Care integrality in HIV testing: the look of women].

The positive detection during partum labor makes women weak and generates specific care demands. The aim of this research was to analyze professional care to women with positive result from fast HIV test based on the point of view of women who knew the positive result during partum labor or postpartum. This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach.

[Counseling in HIV testing in the pre and post labor periods: the look of the integrality].

The sorology for HIV in woman and rapid HIV testing in maternity hospitals must be carried with pre and pos-test counseling. However, it has been observed that the counseling has not been accomplished by many health professionals, who give more importance to the prophylactic measures which intend to prevent vertical transmission. The objective of this qualitative study is to investigate how women evaluate the health care received during the HIV testing at pre and post-labor periods.