BACKGROUND:
Inclusive midwifery care is compassionate, culturally humble, client-centered and focused on Human Rights. Meeting the reproductive and maternity care needs of diverse people is inherent to the midwifery and other health professions. There are no previous studies focusing on the reproductive and maternity care experiences of deafblind women in Peru.

OBJECTIVES:
We explored the experiences of deafblind women when they seek reproductive and maternity health care with the objective of identifying and understanding their reproductive and maternity health care needs and their perceptions of the reproductive and maternity health care they have received across their life course.

METHODS:
We conducted semi-structured, individual, remote and in-person interviews with deafblind women living in Lima, Peru. Women with different levels of deafblindness were interviewed with the assistance of tactile sign language interpreters to explore their experiences using reproductive and maternity health services. Data will be collected until thematic saturation is reached. Reflexive thematic analysis is used to interpret women’s perspectives and perceptions and to generate informed meanings of experiences of care.

RESULTS:
Lack of accessible information on reproductive health creates confusion regarding reproductive choices and maternity.Being listened, encouraged and offered time to communicate led women to perceive midwives as health providers that can be trusted to understand and respect disability.We generated preliminary themes, 1) accessible reproductive health information, 2) acceptance and respect, 3) inclusive services.

CONCLUSIONS:
Women living with disabilities encounter stigma and discrimination when they seek reproductive and maternity care. Health providers are hardly prepared to deliver inclusive care. Sensory disability causes activity limitation and challenges reproductive health choices and child rearing, nonetheless deafblind mothers perceive themselves as capable of participating in child care if adequately supported.

KEY MESSAGE:
Women living with sensory disabilities deserve the high quality reproductive health and maternity care that midwives should be prepared to provide. Woman centered 1 (including three-minute presentation competition)