A qualitative study carried out in a teaching hospital in a basic health unit in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which aimed to know the representations of obstetric violence with a group of women of childbearing age, with a previous history of vaginal or cesarean delivery. The results show that the majority of the interviewees wanted the normal delivery, but they did not obtain enough information about this form of birth by the health professionals who, in general, directed them to have a caesarean section. Women were identified as forms of obstetric violence, which removes their autonomy in the process of parturition, such as: attendant's confinement in labor and delivery, invasion of privacy with the entry of strangers to attend the birth, without The parturient's due leave, and the power of choice for normal childbirth.