Interview – For six months, the journalist Claineermin Goldzal noticed the reality of the neonatology and neonatal resuscitation service of the Neck Hospital Hospital, where every premature birth and a newborn disease struggle.
From Albert Einstein to Stevi Wand, these celebrities have something to do through Dudo-Clarisu Agbevenu. Their premature birth. Experience, which, for some, has left visible consequences, such as blindness because of retinopathy, but which also falsely falsified false destinies. This intersection is between fragility and flexibility that uses us First cries (Publications Seuil), Clémentine Goldszal’s Book. Journalist He aeration of World It tells the story of his six-month immersion in the Paris Neonatology and Neonatal Resuscitation Department in Paris. Through the gaze of a large journalist, he invites us to the mysterious universe, is rarely available where life often begins in suffering and uncertainty. He notices the babies who are fighting for their survival and describe the gestures of guardianship of vulnerable accuracy, these shadows of the shadow who are fighting them.
What motivated you to immerse yourself in such a sensitive and complex environment?
Clémentine Goldszal.- My goal was to study the concept of “born”, more than Motherhood. Stories about this topic often highlight the experience of mothers, perinatia mourning or even postpartum depression, and I have fun, but I had the impression that we ignored the other chief actor, the newborn. I also wanted to question my own birth of life and the universal life experience of life. When I started working on this project, I was told about what I was going to see, for example, sick babies, but I chose to see a number of sadness.
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What is the daily life like in the neonatal neonatology and resuscitation service?
Contrary to what I thought the atmosphere is far from drowning. There is noise, two-way cars and discussions in normal volume. This may seem counterfeit, especially for newborns, but the place is left for a critical care service where emergency situations prevail. It is a world where the tempo is continuous, 24 hours a day, with teams that remain for long guards. Whether they are born in rare pathology, malfunction or very premature, newborns must be fed, change within three hours, and their needs require constant vigilance. And at any time it can pass everything; Their condition can improve or degrade very quickly. That’s why every medical gesture is a subtle reflection. Their blood volume is equivalent to a cup of coffee, even the minimum treatment of blood tests can have serious consequences. It is both terrible and stimulates for guardians. Despite this, these moments of great tensions often soften the lighter moments in the break room, where we laugh where we play in the laptop where we show photos. It is impossible for doctors and nurses to constantly feel the weight of what happened in their ministry. Finally, only parents remain solemnly because their lives are changing.
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Just what is the relationship between communication and parents?
Some guardians are extremely educational and attentive, others, more sober approach, but everyone is convinced that he needs to import his child into the skin. When the baby is born too early or sick, parents, especially mothers, are guilty. Afterwards, it is difficult for guardians to assure them enough at the moment, as it is often a painful opportunity. The link is generally stronger with nurses or childcare assistants who have daily contact with their parents, even after hospitalization. Mourning will also be managed, and these health professionals, like a service psychologist, play a basic role in this support. They are those who take their laptop and keep the photo of their late child if parents want to keep a memory. They are still those who accompany themselves to the last bathroom given to the child. By supporting them, the goal is to show parents how to stay on the side of life.
These babies pass incredible violence. They are intuied, injected, speculate in all directions, naked, alone and private first soothing moments
Clémentine Goldszal, Journalist and “First Shouts”
If the majority of newborns come out of it, report, they are still subject to a number of invasive, recurrent, even extremely painful care. How do doctors say to you if these first moments leave a trace in their development?
Yes, this is a subject that doctors are especially sensitive. If the service strives to soften the environment as much as possible, these babies go to incredible violence. They are designed, soaked in all directions, single and private moments that want to offer as a parent to the skin. Caregiver is aware that these conditions leave a trace undeniably. Very riots like a brain paralysis are often the result of the problems that have arisen during birth. Major prior term can also lead to a more subtle following, which will not be detected so late, vision problems, coordinating disorders or cardio. Although the psychological impact of this care is still clearly understood, research arises and indicates the Annex Disturbance, fears of abandonment, but also psychological racferes. Sometimes some consequences can be caught due to intensive medical and psychological tracking, but it is not always the case. Access to paramed care outside the hospital remains a challenge, particularly in rural areas. This lack of long-term resources is disappointing, because after all these works has been introduced to save these babies, they remain vulnerable and subject to their development.
I have never been to a room where a person’s life or death is determined
Clémentine Goldszal, Journalist and “First Shouts”
To resist the uncertain chances of survival, when can we talk about therapeutic ruthage in neonatology? And how does this ethical dilemma touch?
This question is especially delicate and constantly present in the minds of guardians. Uncertainty is accurate feature of neonatology. Sometimes survival opportunities are weak, but some babies are recovering spectacular, while others do not. When the decision to continue the processing is arising, moral meetings are held with a number of internal and foreign specialists of the service to discuss every situation on the case and study all possible options. For example, one miracle if the operation, as a tracomy, could really improve the situation, and if parents will be able to manage it at home once. There are discussions, contradictory views in these meetings, but in the end everyone strives to play the wise decision collectively. When a decision is made, the atmosphere changes, its sediment and severity of facts are felt on everyone’s face. Was very impressive to attend; I have never been to a room where a person’s life or death is determined.
Did this report changed your perception of birth, life and death?
It made me aware of the great birth of birth and its danger, a reality that always terrified me. But what I also hit the incredible stability of babies is capable of crossing colossal tests as open heart surgery and go out. I discovered that their communication, their neither supernatural language, often misunderstood, cries for survival. For example, a child who looks intensely to us who turns out to or who closes his eyes as soon as he touches it, he is only “smart”. This overwhelming experience has shown me that human resistance can be much stronger than we can imagine in this fragile balance.
Source: Le Figaro
