Abstract
The study was aimed to analyze trend of publications about childbirth performed at home by It is an integrative review performed in databases LILACS and SciELO in February of 2012. The following key-words were used: midwives practical, home childbirth and natural childbirth. The inclusion criteria were: full papers in Portuguese and Spanish, in which content meets goals of study and were published from January 2002 to January 2012. The sample was composed by 13 articles and submitted to thematic content analysis with evidence level of classification. There were emerged following categories: the choice of home childbirth, the care of midwives with mother and baby and social recognition of midwives. For pregnant women, birth at home, allowed several advantages such as comfort, autonomy, privacy, and especially freedom of movement. It was observed that midwives performed antenatal and postpartum in order to safeguard and prevent health problems for both mother and baby. It was evident that community's recognition was for midwives, greatest reward for your work. It is a great need for more studies on this topic, since this practice perpetuated along years, because midwives play and always play a big role in lives of women who want this type of delivery.
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