[The mother figure of children with malformations. A phenomenological study]

The theme of this research refers to children suffering congenital malformation through an analysis of their mothers' reactions in dealing with such a situation. It deals with a descriptive study along the qualitative line through the phenomenological approach. In order to attain that purpose, interviews were made and data collected. The analysis was built under the view of meaning, the orientation of those mothers, i.e. the outlook of the world from their perspective, which was tracked from the meanings (units of meaning) to actual sense based on the philosophical insight of Dr. Martin Heidegger, aiming at characterizing the mother-being in her daily life.