["The Nidcap gave me the impression of having a fairer and more objective perception of the child"]. / « Le Nidcap m'a donné l'impression d'avoir une perception plus juste et plus objective de l'enfant ¼.

Certified Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (Nidcap) childcare worker, Fabienne Grillère first experimented with this practice in the neonatology department before doing so in maternal and child care. Indeed, the principle of Nidcap care can be applied in different professional sectors since they refer to the premature or sick newborn and its observation. Its use brings an undeniable advantage in the support offered to the child and his family.

[« I was moved by an absolute urgency: I had to know what had always been kept from me ¼]. / « J'étais mû par une urgence absolue: je devais savoir ce qui m'avait toujours été tu ¼.

In certain family configurations, the secrecy of origins is fiercely maintained. The revelation can then occur suddenly, causing a radical upheaval for the person concerned. This is what happened to Alexandre Mercier, who agreed to share his experience with us.

[« I believe that children should know how they were conceived ¼]. / « J'ai la conviction que les enfants doivent connaître leur mode de conception ¼.

The decision to become a donor is an altruistic one. It allows infertile couples wishing to have a child to realize their dream. Although there have been developments in recent years concerning the lifting of donor anonymity, there is still progress to be made. Joseph Geantet is one of the people who have chosen to donate sperm. He shares his experience.

[« The desire to know where I came from pushed me to start the research ¼]. / « La volonté de savoir d'où j'étais issu m'a poussé à commencer les recherches ¼.

This interview retraces the journey of a man who, wishing to know where he came from, decided to go in search of his origins. From wanderings to hesitations, from bitterness to determination, Arthur Kermalvezen Fournis describes the different steps that led him to the truth. A painful but salutary fight.

["The association proposes animations and moments of distraction to the hospitalized children"]. / « Les clowns proposent aux petits de s'évader de l'univers hospitalier ¼.

Today, Le Rire médecin has thirty years of experience. It has 120 trained professional clowns who make more than 85,000 individualized visits to 58 pediatric wards in France. Caroline Simonds, the association's founding clown, and Dominique Valteau-Couanet, a pediatrician and former head of department at the Gustave-Roussy Institute in Villejuif (94), met for a two-voice, two-hearted discussion.

["The association proposes animations and moments of distraction to the hospitalized children"]. / « L'association propose des moments de distraction aux enfants hospitalisés ¼.

The association Les Blouses roses intervenes in many hospitals in France, especially at the bedside of hospitalized children. It tries to bring them various animations, fantasy and gaiety in the dark universe of the disease. This is not always an easy task, but it is supported by the will to accompany the young patient and his family against all odds. Chantal Leroy, president of the Les Blouses roses committee in Grenoble (38) for two years, explains how it works.

["The parent has become a true partner thanks to developmental care"]. / « Le parent est devenu un vrai partenaire grâce aux soins de développement ¼.

Malika Jourdain has been a nursery nurse for nearly thirty years and works in neonatology at the children's hospital of La Tronche, in the Isère region. Her rich experience has enabled her to take part in some of the developments that have led to a better understanding of the role of parents with their premature newborn. In particular, the introduction of developmental care has led to upheavals in neonatal services. More than a change in practice, it has led to a paradigm shift.

["The new departmental plan focuses on the implementation of prevention measures"]. / « Le nouveau schéma départemental porte sur la mise en place de dispositifs de prévention ¼.

Marked by the vote on the new departmental plan for children, the year 2021 is particularly rich for Céline Bachimont, technical advisor for early childhood and Mother and Child Protection (PMI) within the Calvados Child and Family Department. Her missions, working across the board with the departments and social action districts, enable her to have an acute knowledge of the population assisted by the PMI and, as a result, to participate in the implementation of innovative projects.

["It is time to allow a real visibility of the work done in PMI"]. / « Il est temps de permettre une vraie visibilité du travail effectué en PMI ¼.

Châu Pham-Daubin and Anne Le Soudier are respectively a doctor in the Mother and Child Protection Department (PMI) and a nursery nurse in charge of the early childhood structures in Calvados, and are part of a dynamic team. Their missions are complementary and they work together for the well-being of children and their families. Their missions are complementary and they work together for the well-being of children and their families. From PMI consultations to the support of pregnant migrant women, through the harmonisation of childcare monitoring and staff training, they tell us about their daily lives.

["We felt we had an important role"]. / « Nous avons eu l'impression d'avoir un rôle important ¼.

At the Libourne Hospital Center, the Institute for Nursing Training was mobilized during the first wave of COVID-19 to welcome the children of caregivers who could not be cared for. A new experience which was made possible thanks to the help of several nursing students. Interview with two of them, Manon Leymarie (in her third year at that time and now a graduate) and Louise Ruault (in her first year in 2019-2020).