[History and current challenges of paediatric psychiatry in maternity units]. / Historique et défis actuels de la pédopsychiatrie en maternité.

The legal framework of mother-baby care has evolved over the last thirty years driven by innovative programmes put in place by hospital health professionals. Liaison in perinatal care lies at the crossroads of different temporalities and treatment objectives, and requires constant dialogue between the liaison caregivers and those in maternity. The aim is to form a holding environment facilitating the establishment of an adapted response to the complexity of the clinical situations encountered.

[Pregnancies with somatic, psychiatric and social entanglements: a complex clinical presentation]. / Grossesses à intrications somatiques, psychiatriques et sociales : une clinique de la complexité.

The mother-infant programme of Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis operates in a territory characterised by psychosocial deprivation and multiculturalism. The account of the immediate post-partum care of a patient with epilepsy having given birth to twins illustrates the possible unease of the healthcare manager and the need for coordination between the hospital and community teams to offer the mother and infant optimal safety and wellbeing.