摘要：The experience of the gestation is privilege of the women, only they
can and live deeply this only moment of its lives. Amongst the
factors that had contributed for the construction of this work they
are: the predominant look on the physical aspects during the period
of pregnancy on the part of some professionals, the increasing
number of pregnant young women; amongst others. This study has
qualitative boarding. Objective to know the expectations concerning
the maternity in primigestas registered in cadastre in the Service of
Prenatal of a Basic Unit of Health of the city of Jequi¨¦/BA; to
identify the performance of the family in the support to the gestation
of the primigestas; beyond inquiring if the primigestas are prepared
or it does not stop exerting the maternity. The procedure used for
collection of the information moved for the Committee of Ethics in
Research of the southwestern State University of the Bahia, as
number of protocol 029/2006. The technique used for the
production of data was the half-structuralized interview, having as
guiding instrument the form, that contend data for to the
identification of the informers and specific questions the thematic
one. The citizens had consisted of 15 primigestas pregnant,
registered in cadastre in the Service of Prenatal, as participation
criterion all would have to be living deeply its first pregnancy,
abstaining themselves the carriers of history of just-been born
abortion or death of. The analysis was given by means of the
technique of analysis of content of Bardin, of where categories and
undercategories had emerged. The results allow to reflect on what
the primigestas wait while the Being mother; point the importance of
the inquiry of the emotional aspects that permeate the gestation,
designating with respect to the necessity of bigger studies
concerning this thematic one; e also reflects concerning the familiar
support and of the preparation that these women carry through to
exert the maternity.
