Introduction:

early stimulation favors baby development and has important benefits.

Objective:

to design an educational intervention on early stimulation during the pregnancy period and up to the first year of life to pregnant woman belonging to the Maternal Home of Consolación del Sur municipality.

Materials and methods:

a quasi-experimental study of educational intervention was carried out in a sample formed by 20 pregnant women, from an intentional non-probabilistic sampling. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were taken into account.

Results:

most of the pregnant women were aged between 14 and 18 years; 50 % had a secondary school scholarship. Before the intervention, a low level of knowledge prevailed in 50 % of them, and then 90 % of pregnant women had a high level of knowledge.

Conclusions: with the implementation of the proposed educational intervention, an increase of knowledge on early stimulation in pregnant women was achieved.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )