Postpartum sexuality: women's perception and nursing performance

Abstract

Every human being is formed by complex issues of sexuality, being part of life, in a significant way. Sexuality is understood by several factors and involves biopsychosocial issues, being directly related to personal and human identity, in addition to levels of satisfaction with life itself, showing the complexity of its conceptualization, as it is not only about physical issues and the pleasure itself. It aims to identify women's perceptions of sexuality in the postpartum period and nursing actions. This study proposed conducting a field research, with a quantitative, exploratory-descriptive methodology, in which the data were collected from a semi-structured questionnaire developed by the researchers, based on an article on sexuality in the postpartum period. According to the approach of the results, it was possible to identify that women who go through the puerperium often have difficulties in returning to have sexual relations and consider that it is possible to have a sexual life again in the postpartum period. It was observed in this study that the great majority of women were not afraid to return to sexual practices in the postpartum period, although many did not have the return of sexual desire immediately, it was something that took some time, varying this time as a woman for women, in the group that was interviewed. These women also had sex again despite the discomfort they had in the first postpartum relationship, this shows that the discomfort can be overcome, and it is necessary for the woman to dialogue with her partner at that time.