Descriptive and exploratory study with the objective to correlate the affective and inter-rational behavior of the nurses during the offer of food to the new-born by the technique of the small glass, in a neonatal unit, to a essential nursing care, aiming the vulnerability of these clientele. Was observed, trough images, twenty nurses during the execution of the cited procedure, and their gestures are discussed based in referential of the human physiology, of the interaction and of the child psychology, among others. It was conclude that the nursing care give to the new-born, besides be scientifically complex, demands, from whom do it, attention, tenderness and sensitivity, subjective elements implicit in the nursing care, that not must be credited to the mother nursing, but to the care dressed in the professionalism, responsibility, scientificity and ethics.
Nursing; New-Born; Behavior
