Abstract

MARQUEZ MURRIETA, Alicia. Coping with Dilemmas: Practicing Caesarean Sections during the Last Moments of Pregnancy. Secuencia [online]. 2019, n.104, e1751.  Epub May 30, 2019. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i104.1751.

The article seeks to record the narratives, experiences and subjectivity of pregnant women who wanted a physiological delivery, which for various reasons ended in a Cesarean section, specifically Mexican women from the urban middle class, who also attended a psycho-prophylactic course. The article seeks to reflect on the decisions and dilemmas they faced in the last moments of pregnancy, which modified a course of action they had desired and imagined and how they gave them meaning. The process does not occur in a vacuum but in a permanent relationship with normative discourses of various types, within which women are able to navigate. It is a first, qualitative approach to the subject. The narrative-based analysis made it possible to capture the experience and subjectivity that appears in twilight, while confirming that certain decisions made at the beginning of pregnancies will affect what happens months later.

Keywords : pregnancy; C-section; decision; narration; experience; subjectivity.

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