INTRODUCTION
For women suffering from sickle cell anemia (SCA), pregnancy is a potentially serious condition that can leave them even more fragile and insecure. Even with a high incidence of complications during pregnancy, they live with the positive feeling of getting pregnant, having children and the achievement brought about by motherhood. During childbirth and the puerperium they require a differentiated assistance because in those moments of joy and fulfillment, they experience the risk of death and the fear that their child may suffer from SCA at birth(1).
Pregnancy can aggravate SCA, with the increase in frequency and severity of painful crises and infections. The maternal-fetal risks include: an increase in vase-occlusive crises in the pre- and postpartum, urinary tract infections, pulmonary complications, anemia,preeclampsia, and even death(2).