“…Thus, it is noted that these actions are in line with the protocols for the reorganization of health services for COVID-19 prevention and control, which recommend: not to attend childbirths in water; 2,4 avoid handling the placenta and amniotic sac; 4,28 limit the number of people in collective spaces and bathrooms; prevent sharing of objects; and respect the distance of one meter between people, especially in indoor and poorly ventilated environments. 2,14 Despite these efforts, maintaining physical distance in the care relationship with the parturient women, associated with extensive PPE use, is a challenge for midwives in this study, since they understand touch and non-verbal communication as bodily-affective attitudes transformed into non-medicated therapeutic actions, which characterize the process of humanistic nursing care 1,9,29 and provide a positive experience with childbirth. 15,30 However, they recognize that this attitude increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission.…”