Current Scientific Journal - ISSN 2764-1759 (online)

ISSN: 2965-307X (impresso)

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DOULAS IN OBSTETRIC CARE: A REVIEW ON THE LEGISLATION AND STATUTE OF THE FEDERATION OF DOULAS IN BRAZIL

 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7916629

 

Marilia Botelho Soares Dutra Fernandes

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Bárbara Almeida Arruda

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Fernanda de David

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Jéssica Andrade de Almeida Rosa

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Lincoln Kemp Marini

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Maria Cirleide de Souza Farias

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Thalita dos Santos Carrera

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Thaís Freitas Diana

Universidade Brasil, Graduation in Physiotherapy, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

Rodrigo Augusto Bittencourt de Alencar

University of Brazil, Graduation in Medicine, Fernandópolis, SP.

 

 

Corresponding author: marilia.botelhofernandes@gmail. with



ABSTRACT

The migration of births from the home environment to the hospital resulted in transformations in the act of giving birth, ceasing to be a physiological event specific to women, to transforming it into a medical act full of interventions that can cause iatrogenesis, in addition to an increase in costs to health-care systems. In this context, the figure of the doula emerges, an active health professional in the movements for the humanization of childbirth, who seeks physical and emotional support for women during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. Doulas function as an active part of this transformation and are fundamental to reducing the cesarean section epidemic, as well as to the fight for women's reproductive health. Although the profession has been recognized for a long time around the world, in Brazil, it was only in March 2022 that the laws regulating the profession were approved at the Federal level. The approval was the result of the union of professionals who began to organize themselves into State Federations and, later, created the National Federation of Doulas of Brazil, the organization responsible for the Statute of the Profession. This article discusses the changes that have occurred in obstetrics over recent history.

Keywords: Doulas. Humanized Childbirth. Obstetrics. Women's health.

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