BECOME A MOTHER DURING ADOLESCENCE: ACTIVATION OF THE MATERNAL ROLE DURING PRENATAL CONTROL

Introduction: Pregnant adolescents are a vulnerable population group, with limitations on the construction of personal identity against maternal and inability to establish a stable family that affect their quality of life and the unborn child. The objective of this article is to present the scope of the application of a strategy for nursing care that promoted the comprehensive care of pregnant adolescent activation of the maternal role during prenatal care. Materials and Methods: This article is the result of the implementation of a strategy for nursing care: comprehensive care program for pregnant adolescent during antenatal care, based on the theory of Mercer, and structured from the logical framework; the strategy counted with the participation of ten adolescent pregnancy and the interdisciplinary team. Results: Adoption and implementation of the strategy and center opening Institutional support and care for pregnant adolescents "Growing Together", which promoted the comprehensive care and allowed the activation of the maternal role during prenatal care. Discussion: Becoming a teenage mother, is not activated without the influence of careful structured provided by nurses who heads the health team, who allow pregnant women to reduce their fears, knowing and living the gestation and learn the tasks to transcend to the activation of the maternal role. Conclusions: The Strategy validates the visibility of sustained care in a nursing theory, to respond to human needs.