ACOLHIMENTO ÀS GESTANTES NO ACOMPANHAMENTO PRÉ-NATAL NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE.

Prenatal care is monitoring the progress of pregnancy and aims to embrace, care for and prepare women for motherhood. In view of this, this moment needs to be safe and healthy; therefore, effective, adequate, embracing and holistic maternal care is essential. This work sought to understand the perception of pregnant women regarding the embracement obtained during prenatal care in Primary Health Care. This is a study with an exploratory qualitative design, developed in a health unit located in the municipality of Juazeiro, Bahia. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with random recruitment during the doctors' appointments and the content collected was analyzed and organized into categories according to the Collective Subject Discourse technique. Thus, it was clear that good practices in the professionals' work improve processes and provide quality, humanized, safe and effective assistance to pregnant women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]