Objective: To identify the prevalence of pain in puerperal women, describe the characteristics of pain and its impacts on the performance of daily life activities, and evaluate satisfaction with received analgesia. Method: Cross-sectional study which included women who had given birth. These were evaluated within 72 hours postpartum in a public teaching hospital in São Paulo city. Obstetric and clinical data were evaluated, as well as presence and characteristics of pain and its impact on daily activities. Results: A total 128 women participated in this study. The prevalence of pain was 36.7% during the interview and 54.6% in the previous 24 hours. The main pain site was the abdominal region (64.7%) and pain intensity was moderate to 48.9% of women, with intermittent frequency in 58% of the cases. There was a significant association between presence of pain and type of delivery (cesarean; p=0.030). Not being able to provide care to the newborn, requiring going to a different unit, increased pain perception (p=0.038). A significant impact of pain on the capacity of walking, eating, sleeping, taking care of the baby, evacuating, breathing deeply, breastfeeding, and sitting was verified. Conclusion: Pain was frequent during the postpartum period and significantly affected the mothers’ activities, indicating a need for improving pain management in puerperium.

The study was carried out with mothers who had the experience of having a child admitted in a neonatal unit in order to treat congenital syphilis and its goal is to understand such experience. Symbolic Interactionism and the Grounded Theory are respectively the methodological and theoretical referential. The study was carried out at São Paulo University School Hospital and the data were collected through the interview with ten mothers whose newborns underwent congenital syphilis treatment, admitted from April 2006 to December 2007. The reports were codified and grouped according to the meaning attributed into subcategories, categories and theme. Two themes emerged from the data related to the maternal experience under study. A) The theme EXPERIENCING THE IMPACT OF DISCOVERING THE DISEASE which describes the first impact and the theme EXPERIENCING THE CHILD'S ADMISSION, related to the mother's experience of having a child admitted during the period of treatment. The study revealed that the maternal experience is dynamic and reverberates in the interaction with the families, not being restricted to the experience of the baby's admission. Finding out about syphilis involves emotional reactions such as fear, distress and suffering as well as cognitive emotions such as doubts related to infection and treatment. Maternal experience is better when shared and supported by the family and also when the health professional approach is free from prejudice and judgment.

Objetivo: avaliar o conhecimento da equipe de enfermagem do alojamento conjunto sobre sofrimento mental puerperal e oferecer subsídios para ações educativas. Método: estudo descritivo, quantitativo, realizado com 30 profissionais de enfermagem em hospital público de ensino, em São Paulo - BR. Os dados foram coletados entre dezembro de 2020 e janeiro de 2021 por meio de questionário estruturado e analisados de forma descritiva. Resultados: 73,3% das enfermeiras obstétricas, técnicas e auxiliares de enfermagem tinham idade ≥40 anos e 80% tinham tempo de atuação ≥cinco anos. Predominou o conhecimento sobre o papel da enfermagem e as práticas na assistência ao sofrimento mental puerperal (maioria de respostas esperadas em 80% das questões), em contraposição ao conhecimento sobre fisiopatologia, sintomas e causas de blues, depressão e psicose puerperal (maioria de respostas esperadas em 40% das questões). Conclusão: os resultados podem subsidiar a educação permanente, visando ampliar o conhecimento da equipe de enfermagem e fortalecer o processo de cuidar

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