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Prémio de mérito científico pela Comissão Científica, Background: Parenthood marks one of the greatest changes the family system faces and an especially critical transition, due to the repercussions it can have on the health and well-being of parents themselves and the healthy development of children. Aim: This study aimed to understand the response patterns of parents in the exercise of parenthood during the child's first 6 months of life. Methods: Grounded Theory. Data collection from semi-structured interviews (a total of 60 interviews), complemented with observation (a total of 37 home visits), which took place in the child's first days, and the 1st, 4th and 6th months. We had the participation of 5 fathers and 5 mothers (couples), with ages ranging from 26 to 33 years and one healthy child, born at full term. Results: They uncover the actions/interactions (according to Corbin and Strauss's Paradigm Model, 2014) adopted by parents facing the parenthood phenomenon, which hold cognitive (learning, decision-making), relational (family support) and operational (division of labour, routine rearrangement, reconciliation of roles) components. Conclusions: This investigation is constituted as a reflection and awareness point towards the change/innovation in the contexts of healthcare practice, highlighting the moderator and mediator action nurses can assume during the transition to parenthood., PROTEC 2010-2011, 2011-2012, info:eu-repo/semantics/draft

Introduction: Raising a child is a great responsibility and cha[len ge and demands deep transformation and adaptation in the parents’ [ives, This is [ikely to cause imba[ance and vu[nera bi[ity to themse[ves and to have implications in the chi[d’s deve[opment. Objectives: To understand the nature of the transition to parenthood during the chi[d’s first year; to identify the personal, social and communitarian conditions in which it occurs and to understand the nature of its action; and a[so to comprehend the parents’ patterns of response, The aim was to develop a mid-range theory contributing to the improvement of the quality of nursing care provided to the famity during this transition. Methods: Grounded Theory, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, constant comparative approach and theoretica[ samp[ing. Data was co[[ected in the parents’ homes, at five time points, a total of 75 interviews on 43 visits. Five fathers and tive mothers participated in the study. ResuLts: Being a father, being a mother: an interaction-based process in the making is the core category of the exp[anatory theoretica[ mode[ found. T[iis represents the emergence of a force that enables the parent’s personal transformation, motivated to chi[d care and the restore of the necessary strength for the dai[y strugg[e which represents the parenthood. lt demonstrates the continuous movement of the intra and interpersona[ parents’ organization, which outweighs the temporality of the parental condition as an identity reconstruction. Conclusions: The concepts identified enhance the know[edge base of parenthood as a phenomenon and demonstrate a need to reflect on interventions in practice at the leveI of primary hea[th care.