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GARCIA GARCIA, Luz Marina et al. Antenatal stimulation practices made by adult pregnant women who assist to antenatal control in Sincelejo (Colombia). Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2008, vol.24, n.1, pp.31-39. ISSN 0120-5552.

Objective: Describe the practices in prenatal estimutation care and with their unborn children a group of adult pregnant women who assist to antenatal control at the institutional health services Las Americas, San Luis and the Social Projection Program of the University of Sucre, during September - October of 2006. Materials and methods: It was developed a descriptive study, cross sectional, with an intentional selection of a sample of 141 pregnant women without associated pathologies, that represent 68.7% of the population involved in the study. Results: According to care practices of antenatal stimulation, it was observed that 92.9% of the sample did not assist to psycoprofilactic course, 69.5% manifested that stimulation must be made since first trimester, what it’s positive for developing the new human being; 63.8% of the sample said that always talk to their baby, making auditory stimulation, while 48.9% said that always avoid to play music near the abdomen. About visual stimulation, 76.6% of the sample said that never stimulate with light through the abdomen to her baby. Conclusions: In general the practices of simple prenatal stimulations among then the speach and abdominal stimulations were accepted. This pregnancy women present good practices of tactil stimulation throught contact with the abdominal walls to enforce the contact mother-child.

Palabras clave : Adult pregnant woman; care practices; antenatal control; antenatal stimulation; auditory stimulation; tactile stimulation; visual stimulation.

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