BETWEEN MYTHS AND TRUTHS: EXPLORING THE POPULAR WISDOM IN THE COLLECTIVE PRE-NATAL

The pregnancy is a phenomenon of many transitions, from morphophysiological variations to the woman and the fetus to changes in family and social context, being this whole process surrounded by expectations. The collective Pre-natal is a more comprehensive assistance methodology, which merges the conventional consultation with collective actions, allowing the mother to be the protagonist in the process. In this context, the popular knowledge of the pregnant woman becomes influential in this method, and should be considered by professionals of primary care, aiding in the formation of a humanized assistance. Thus, this paper has scoped to describe the experience of the professionals of the primary care in the assistance and health education on Pre-Natal from the perspective of popular knowledge of pregnant women, based in the report of experiments conducted by the participants of the collective action extent of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN): Dialoguing experiences and strengthening the maternal care. The project, developed since November of 2014, was the result from intervention of the Supervised Internship in Primary Care, based in wheels conversations associated with other learning resources. Fifteen pregnant women of many pregnancy stages participated of this project. The meetings were founded on doubts raised in the consultations and experiences related. It is hoped that the dissemination of this experience helps to strengthen the Pre-Natal assistance in primary care, as a means of valorizing the maternal and family role and encouragement for professionals to understand the socio-cultural aspects of the assisted community.