Foundation:

during the puerperium there are causes of maternal complications that compromise the woman’s life, a stage that requires continuous monitoring and successful action by health professionals. It is important in the world and in Cuba to monitor the maternal deaths causes’ behavior and the maternal patients morbidity in critical condition, for the application of organizational, control and action strategies to improve this indicator.

Objective:

to characterize the maternal morbidity behavior during the puerperium.

Methods:

descriptive, cross-sectional study on the morbidity of puerperal women at the Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital, during the year 2020. The universe was composed of 3563 births that occurred. A form for data collection was developed. The analyzed variables were: maternal age, type of delivery, birth weight, gestational age, state of the newborn at birth, and severe and non-serious maternal morbidity.

Results:

there was women predominance between 20 and 34 years of age (76%); 57.9% had eutocic delivery. The postpartum women with maternal morbidity due to severe sepsis were 79 women (2.2%) and with non-serious morbidity 397 women (11.1%).

Conclusions:

severe sepsis, preeclampsia-eclampsia, and postpartum hemorrhage are the entities that were mostly observed in severe maternal morbidity; those with non-serious morbidity had low birth weight newborns and postpartum anemia.

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