Psychological Follow-up During Prenatal Care of Pregnant Women: Insights During the covid-19 pandemic - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia

Letter to the Editor

Psychological Follow-up During Prenatal Care of Pregnant Women: Insights During the covid-19 pandemic

Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet. 2021;43(1):72-73

DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1718451

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Dear Editor,

The puerperal pregnancy cycle is considered a period of crisis marked by emotional changes in women and men, and may evolve healthily or present psychological disorders that will compromise psychological, physical and marital health. Psychological prenatal care is the monitoring of the pregnant and/or of the couple during pregnancy, the postpartum period and the puerperium until at least the 3rd month. The follow-up is for any and all pregnancies in obstetric physiological, pathological, fetal medicine and pregnancy losses. The main objective of psychological support involves preparing the couple to experience motherhood and fatherhood, to develop an active posture of the pregnant and the father, the strengthening of the marital relationship, the facilitation of the maternal-paternal-filial bond and the prevention of postpartum depression and puerperal psychosis.

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