Convertirse en madre durante la adolescencia: transiciones en el rol materno

Abstract

e article aims to disclose the development experience of a nursing strategy that promotes comprehensive care of the adolescent mother, child, partner or companion for the activation of the maternal role during the postpartum period, as part of the Growing Together program of the ESE Duitama Regional Hospital (Boyaca, Colombia). e care strategy was designed based on the application of Ramona Mercer's “become a mother” theory, from a theoretical-empirical conceptual system and a logical framework model as well as from social support and was developed in four interventions: an initial home visit, phone call follow-up, group of mothers and companions in the postpartum period, and a second home visit. Similarly, results are presented by means of empirical indicators of the development of the care strategy in a group of 25 mothers for whom institutional health interventions were oriented towards the practice of care as part of the visibility of nursing care for adolescent mothers, and towards the promotion of motherhood from the activation and normalization of the role in the process of becoming a mother.