À l’écoute du bébé prématuré - Catherine Druon

The care of premature newborns is a relatively recent hospital practice. It involves welcoming babies, in many ways unfinished or incomplete, thanks to extremely advanced medical technology, but also to the sustained attention of dedicated teams. The active presence of an analyst within these highly specialized medical teams is not a given. However, it engages in crucial mediation work. Several people are involved. Primarily the parents: the mother often experiences a premature birth as an intense frustration of an unfinished act, and sometimes settles into a very strong feeling of guilt. The parental couple then faces the uncertainty of the unknown, and the threat of possible loss...