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Aim: to know the feelings experienced by women who experienced a high-risk pregnancy. Methodology: qualitative and descriptive study conducted at the University Hospital of Santa Maria, in the south of the country. Participants were selected based on the list of medical records of women who attended prenatal high risk consultations. Ten women over 18 years old, considered as those who experienced a high-risk pregnancy and who gave birth not more than two years from the date of study were interviewed. Data was analyzed and interpreted according to thematic content analysis of the operative proposal. Results: the category "feelings of women who experienced a high-risk pregnancy" and subcategories such as feelings of fear, anxiety, sadness and happiness emerged from the study. Discussion: we observed the exacerbation of feelings, often contradictory, because even with fear and anxiety the patients felt happiness, which is also described in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]