The goal of the following research is to determine which is the experience lived by women in relationship with obstetric violence and the care received by health workers during their birth labor process. We have developed a qualitative research v/ith a phenomenological approach with an interpretative type, which allowed describing the phenomenon of the obstetric violence from the perspective of women that had lived this type of violence. We have done some deep-structured interviews and field notes to 21 women that have lived an institutionalized birth labor process and have felt obstetric violence. The analysis of the information was done using the Colaizzi method, obtaining 7 categories and 20 sub-categories, approved by the participants of the study through a focal group. The categories v/ere: institutional violence, physical violence, psychological and social violence, symbolic violence, verbal violence, resistance and historicity. The data was analyzed by the nursing theories of Madeleine Leininger and Jean Watson. Also, we used some concepts of Michel Foucault related with disciplinary power. Within the results v/e highlight categories such as the psychological and social violence and symbolic violence as the ones prevailing through the process of birth-labor. The category of historicity reveals that obstetric violence leaves an eternal mark in women s life and it has a negative influence on their desire of having more children. Finally, those women stand up against the negative health workers practices through physical and verbal resistance, item showed in the category of resistance.