[Prenatal care from puerperal women's point of view: from medicalization to the fragmentation of care].

This qualitative and exploratory-descriptive study aimed to reveal the perceptions of puerperal women about prenatal service care. The data collected through semi-structured interviews were submitted to thematic analysis and consisted of the opinions of eight puerperal women. The access, booking of consultations and provision of priority services in case of complications were highlighted as qualifiers of the prenatal care.

[Sexuality and breastfeeding: concepts and approaches of primary health care nurses].

The objective of this study is to identify the primary health care nurses' concepts about sexuality, and how this theme is integrated within the health care practices of these professionals when working with breastfeeding women. This qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study was performed with eight nurses from three primary health care units in a city in the north region of Rio Grande do Sul state. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews.

[Women's vulnerability in the puerperium from the view of family health teams: emphasis on generational aspects and adolescence].

The paper analyzes the emphasis of the professionals of Family Health Teams (FHTs) on adolescent women's puerperium as a period in which women are particularly vulnerable. The adolescent women's special vulnerability in the puerperium period is justified by their way of living, showing a natural tendency to making the adolescence phenomenon something natural. The analysis was performed on some results from a qualitative study performed with FHTs of Santa Maria/RS, which used the focus groups strategy and content analysis.