Table 3.
Themes, categories and codes
Theme | Category | Code |
---|---|---|
Essential needs, basic services and security | Women’s feelings |
- Fear of seismic shocks - Fear for the safety of the fetus - Need for stability and “return to normality” |
Shelters and temporary accommodations |
- Characteristics and conditions - Keeping the woman close to her partner - Keeping the woman close to a maternity facility |
|
Community, partner and family support | Reconfiguration of relations |
- Separation from partners - Support from the family - Positive effects of the relationship with the baby |
Community |
- Absence of the community to which women belong - Social pressure - Families perception of being a burden for the emergency response system |
|
Mother-Infant focused, non-specialized support | Emergency personnel |
- First aid personnel - Health and psychosocial professionals |
Emergency services and initiatives |
- Aimed to family support - Aimed to promote the psycho-social health - Meeting areas for mothers and children |
|
Specialized Maternal and Infant health care | Hospital care |
- Welcoming care - Acknowledging the specific needs due to emergency - Feeling of being taken care of, together with the family - Sharing the birth experience with other pregnant women - “Old-fashion” breastfeeding hospital practices |
Community services |
- Breastfeeding support after hospital discharge - Standard health care |
|
IYCF-E |
- Infant’s products and infant formula distribution - Support and education on BMS reconstitution - Infant formula supplies |
Abbreviations: IYCF-E Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, BMS Breast Milk Substitutes