Mulheres que cuidam: um relato de experiência de extensão em um Banco de Leite Humano

Abstract

This article presents an experience report developed in the context of a college extension project, accomplished at the Banco de Leite Humano of the Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. The proposal articulate theory and practice, providing a sensitive psychoanalytical listening to women in puerperium and lactation condition. Thus, this paper aims to report on one of the authors’ experiences, accentuating the factors that most penetrated her in the process. Through the experience, it was noticed that the most recurring demand was related to the need for acceptance and subjective acknowledgement, not to technical advice about lactation. It was stressed about the fact that the supporting networking was composed mostly of women, highlighting the womanly centrality on care practices. The reports analysis enabled critical thinking through psychoanalytical and feminist theory upon the naturalization of the care as a women task. In conclusion, the college extension, promoting listening and exchange spaces, constitute itself as a resistance clinical-political practice, fomenting bonds’ construction, appreciation of women who care and the gender inequality problematization.