"A imagem mais linda" : construção de maternidades e o diagnóstico por imagem.

Abstract

The realization of both laboratory and diagnostic imaging exams become a routine practice in the lives of pregnant women, who as a result of the pregnancy attending health services in a systematic way from a very strict schedule of appointments. This study aimed to analyze the buildings of pregnant women in relation to maternity and fetus from performing diagnostic imaging exams. In methodological terms this is an exploratory qualitative descriptive research, the data were produced from semi-structured interviews with pregnant women who would perform obstetric ultrasonography, and it were analyzed from maps of association of ideas. The data indicate that pregnant women who participated in the study perform the exam without being very clear about their goals, as it’s possible to see in the analysis, the realization of this exam interferes in the constructions that these women have in relation to motherhood, but especially the images collaborate to the fetus becomes perceived in a more concrete plan. The ultrasonography, according to the data, produces meanings in relation to the child that are articulated with other social, cultural and economic contexts. In this sense the fetal image seen on the device interferes in the relationship that this woman establishes from this experience. Another aspect that caught the attention refers to the familiarity with technical terms presents in a significant number of the interviewees speak, as well as the perception that this is an indispensable exam during pregnancy, which according to them, has the role of monitoring pregnancy, and indicates "if it's okay" with the fetus and with her, which raises a range of expectations generated by the realization of this exam that are not always able to be met. Thus indicating the need to discuss its realization.