The concern to reveal the life experience that involves the birth of a premature child and hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), arises from the experience lived as nurses in the area of Neonatal Intensive Care, and at the same time as mothers of premature girls, who at one time required to be hospitalized in it. When you are going to be a mother, you create high expectations regarding birth; if the pregnancy does not reach term and premature birth occurs, the newborn must be hospitalized in the NICU, a situation that causes confusion in the parents, uncertainty and anguish over the separation of his son.

During hospitalization of the newborn, the nursing professional provides care and participates in the recovery; Likewise, he is in continuous contact with the parents when they enter the Unit to visit their child. These are not prepared for this experience, because in the NICU they observe a different environment, with monitors, respirators, probes, machines, and their baby connected to different equipment, so the majority react in the same way: fear seizes them, they dare not touch him, some mothers choose to walk away, and unconsciously they feel guilty.

At the NICU, attention is focused on the child’s health status, but fathers and / or mothers also need attention, being able to speak and be heard by someone; In this way, health personnel have the opportunity to know and understand the experiences experienced by parents of premature children.