Sexuality and pregnancy: issues on woman's life – literature review

Abstract

This article, constructed from a literature review, presents considerations on woman’s health, referring to issues of sexuality and human reproduction, pointed from a social, economical and cultural context. Considers the identity crisis lived not just by the pregnant, as well as be present at her partner, since the maternity experience could demand a previous lost of identity and the search of another not well defined. Points out considerations about the health professional’s actuation, in the rescue of humanization of attention on the cycle pregnancy and puerperal phase, from the establishment of a relation between individuals, based on the well-being integrality, in the perspective that each woman lived her pregnancy in a singular way, reminding that this period could creates doubts, fears, narrowness and fantasies, and the professionals could that can enrich this period of life transmitting more security to the pregnant woman. Keywords: sexuality and pregnancy - crisis identity - women's health.