["There was an adventure in this challenge"]. / « Il y avait une aventure dans ce défi ¼.

Dominique Pellarin is a documentalist at the Institute of Nursing Training at the Libourne Hospital Centre. Catherine Billard is an early childhood educator and was seconded from the hospital's paediatrics department at the height of the first wave of the epidemic. Both supervised a reception system for the children of caregivers set up within the establishment during the confinement period. Interview.

[New virus, new disease... and new challenges]. / Nouveau virus, nouvelle maladie et nouveaux défis.

Since the emergence of the new coronavirus in China at the end of 2019 and its spread across five continents, our lives have changed. Confinement, state of health emergency, barrier gestures, physical distancing, etc., an arsenal of unprecedented measures has been put in place in France to break the chains of transmission of the virus and prevent the subsequent disease, COVID-19. A look back at these extraordinary events and what we know (or don't know) about the pandemic.

["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).

["Since his stroke, Théo has become a child like any other"]. / « Après son accident vasculaire cérébral, Théo est redevenu un enfant comme les autres ¼.

Théo is a 7-year-old boy who was diagnosed as having had an ischemic stroke a few hours after birth. Today, despite some sequelae, Théo is doing well. He continues however to be followed medically. His mother describes his care pathway and the support given to the whole family.

[The midwife-child health nurse collaboration, a link between the maternity unit and neonatology]. / La collaboration sage-femme infirmière puéricultrice, un lien entre la maternité et la néonatologie.

Collaborative work forms part of the well-treatment and improvement of quality of care approach. It is also of benefit to the medical and paramedical teams. Within the parent-child unit of Libourne hospital, the midwife and child health nurse collaborate throughout the pregnancy, and especially during the post-partum period. The teams work together notably around the care of "high-risk" births and in particular when the newborn is hospitalised in a kangaroo care unit.