TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Death of children by domestic accidents: unveiling the maternal experience JO - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem A1 - Bezerra, Maria Augusta Rocha A1 - Rocha, Ruth Cardoso A1 - Rocha, Karla Nayalle de Souza A1 - Moura, Diogo Filipe Santos A1 - Christoffel, Marialda Moreira A1 - Souza, Ivis Emília de Oliveira A1 - Rocha, Silvana Santiago da SP - e20210435 EP - e20210435 VL - 75 IS - 4 N2 - OBJECTIVES: to unveil the meanings of mothers whose children died as a result of domestic accidents in childhood.

METHODS: a qualitative research, in the light of Heideggerian phenomenology, with ten mothers whose children died from domestic accidents. It was carried out in a municipality of the Northeast Region of Brazil through phenomenological interviews between May and June 2017. The existential analytic was constituted by the comprehensive moments of the Heideggerian method.

RESULTS: the meanings unveiled pointed out that, to understand the sudden death of her child, the mother oscillates between feeling guilty, pointing and denying guilt. She reports emptiness, permanent pain, non-acceptance of her child's death, and the desire to keep him in her life. In this journey, the fear that brings limitations to her life and that of her other children is revealed. Final Considerations: it was revealed that the death of the child in infancy compromises the integrality of being a mother, indicating the need for systematic and continuous care for the adequate management of the emotional and social effects.

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LA - pt SN - 0034-7167 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0435 ID - ref1 ER -