Aim: To identify the perceptions, behaviors and cares that Mapuche women have about pregnancy, delivery and post partum. This information will help us understand as the Mapuche culture live this period and so to know how interact with them.
Methods: Through reading and analysis of a Ethnographic work made during eight years in the Mapuche communities of the Araucania Region.
Results: Was demonstrated that in the Mapuche society exist a different and complex meaning about care for the Mapuche women during pregnancy also the existence of a set of social and cultural norms that define what is allowed and not allowed in pregnant women and how the comunity and the Mapuche husband should to behave also shows that all the beliefs of the Mapuche people are associated with the strength, energy and movement of the elements of the life because they have this knowledge since many generations and ancestral times and recognize it as sacred.
Discussion: The Mapuche culture pattern about the care during the pregnancy combines physical, natural and spiritual elements of the conventional medicine and Mapuche.
Conclusions: The knowledge of the beliefs and practices during pregnancy in Mapuche culture will allow us to create models of appropriate health care for this comunity during this process and others as the delivery and post partum. To understand how this culture lives this normal and beautiful period will help us to develop an intercultural approach in the health programs for women in our country.
Key words: Mapuche culture, pregnancy.
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