Conference Proceedings - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Trinity ...

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
Aims
� To promote the optimization in fetus development;
� To develop the abilities of the fetus/new born;
� To provide a better quality of life and wellbeing in the Uterus;
� To sensitize the health professionals for the advantages of the
early relationship in pregnancy.
BRAZELTON and CRAMER (1989; p: 24-30) enhance that, for the
woman, the desire to have a child is based on several
presumptions:
� Identification – that comes from the fact that all women lived
the experience of having a mother and as much as they develop
their autonomy, they assume maternal views, through modeling
similar to the women who are close to them.
� The desire of being complete and omnipotent – that is part of a
narcisistic desire and that is expressed in the psychic life through
fantasies. Thus, the desire of the woman to become complete, to
feel her productive and powerful body, annulling any concern
about body imperfection. As BRAZELTON (1986, p: 26) states "
the narcisistic desire of completing ourselves through a child is
more differentiated: the mother starts facing the desired child as
an extension of her body, conferring her an increased image that
she can exhibit with pride".
� The desire of fusion and union with the other –that consists in
the fantasy of symbiosis, the union with the child and
simultaneously, in the desire that the birth, the development and
the maintenance of these attitudes of bonding are dependent on
the ability that the woman had to regain these union fantasies
with her mother.
� The desire of seing herself in her child – being also a narcisistic
dimension, attempts to love the reproduced image, with a feeling
of immortality. BRAZELTON (1989, p: 26) tells us that "… this
desire extends to the familiar tradition and ideals, the child
represents a promise of continuity, the corporization of these
values".
� Accomplishment of ideas and lost opportunities – refers to the
feeling that the parents have in the sense that their child will be
well succeeded precisely in the aspects in which they failed or
they had not obtained successes. There is a chance of modifying
the situations, since the child represents the ideal of perfection.
The future child, besides being an extension of the mother’s body
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