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BECOME A MOTHER IN TIMES OF PANDEMICS: INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Tuize Damé Hense, Viviane Marten Milbrath , Ruth Irmgard Bärtschi Gabatz, Pedro Trindade Velasques, Thaline Jaques Rodrigues , Jésssica Cardoso Vaz
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Pregnancy is a unique experience in a woman’s life, full of changes and reorganizations, and having this experience during the Coronavirus Disease pandemic makes this experience even more complex. The objective of this study was to know the publications on becoming a mother in the period of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic in the years 2020-2021, through an integrative review. Original articles that answered the guiding question, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, in the years 2020 and 2021, were included. Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. The final sample consisted of 12 articles, five articles in the Sage Journals database, six in the Online System of Search and Analysis of Medical Literature and one in Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences. During the pandemic, pregnant and postpartum women were more likely to develop health problems, both physical and mental, including a greater tendency to develop anxiety and depression, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and preeclampsia, when compared to previous moments, due to the increased stress generated by the pandemic. In addition, Sars-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women appears to be related to premature births by emergency cesarean sections, intrauterine fetal growth restriction, miscarriage, perinatal death, and maternal venous thromboembolism. In this sense, the Covid-19 pandemic affected pregnant women in different ways, especially their mental health, with a high rate of anxiety and depression being observed in this group.