Qualitative study that aimed to understand the experience of women in natural childbirth at home and at the hospital, as to argue the experience of the women in the both types of birth. The subjects of the study was seven multiparous women that lives in Batalha Piauí Brazil, and the used instruments were a half structurized script in a interview. The results revealed that the births at home experienced by women happened faster, in a natural way, without intervention and assisted by midwives or the mother of these women. The positions preferred during the birth at home was in a net and in a seat, and the births at the hospital was difficult, complicated and with traumatic interventions. The best position and the best location of birth, choused by the interviewed women, were the net and the birth at home, respectively. It was concluded that the birth at home was natural and humanized, but the birth at the hospital was conducted by professionals with interventions without the active participation of the pregnant woman, making it traumatic, inhuman and with risk.

Qualitative study that aimed to understand the experience of women in natural childbirth at home and at the hospital, as to argue the experience of the women in the both types of birth. The subjects of the study was seven multiparous women that lives in Batalha Piauí Brazil, and the used instruments were a half structurized script in a interview. The results revealed that the births at home experienced by women happened faster, in a natural way, without intervention and assisted by midwives or the mother of these women. The positions preferred during the birth at home was in a net and in a seat, and the births at the hospital was difficult, complicated and with traumatic interventions. The best position and the best location of birth, choused by the interviewed women, were the net and the birth at home, respectively. It was concluded that the birth at home was natural and humanized, but the birth at the hospital was conducted by professionals with interventions without the active participation of the pregnant woman, making it traumatic, inhuman and with risk.
 

Estudo com abordagem qualitativa, objetivando compreender na vivência das mulheres a experiência do parto normal domiciliar e hospitalar bem como discutir a vivência das mulheres nos dois tipos de partos. Os sujeitos do estudo foram sete mulheres multíparas residentes em Batalha PI, e o instrumento utilizado foi um roteiro semi-estruturado com a técnica da entrevista. Os resultados revelaram que os partos domiciliares vivenciados pelas mulheres aconteceram mais rápido, de forma natural, sem intervenções e assistidos por parteiras ou por suas mães. As posições de preferência durante o parto domiciliar foram na rede e no assento, e os partos hospitalares foram laboriosos, complicados e com intervenções traumáticas. A melhor posição e o melhor local do parto escolhidos pelas entrevistadas foram na rede e o domicílio, respectivamente. Conclui-se que o parto domiciliar foi natural e humanizado, já o parto normal hospitalar foi conduzido pelos profissionais com intervenções sem a participação ativa das parturientes, tornando-o traumático, desumano e de risco.