Objective:The study aimed to conceptualise and discuss the advent of the Milk Moon. The discussion and analysis take as a reference the COVID-19 pandemic period.Methods: This is a qualitative study that presents the concept of the Milk Moon, based on collective subject discourse and elements of the Winnicottian theory in the construction of maternity. The technique consisted of analysing the verbal material collected with the methodological figures, key expressions and central ideas, to generalise the result and reveal a collective opinion.
Results:The Milk Moon process involves planning, skin-toskin contact, bonding, exterogestation and parenting.
Conclusion:The Milk Moon is a process of mothering, a humanised way of gestating, giving birth and physically and emotionally developing the mother-baby binomial and building identities, and can become an extremely rich period, of experiences, experiencing new realities and bonding between mother, baby and family. And in this process, the formation of the support network in the organisation of the Milk Moon in any context becomes a protective factor for the health of the mother-baby binomial.