SILVA, Sergio Gomes da. From fetus to baby: Winnicott and the first parent-infant relationship. []. , 28, 2, pp.29-54. ISSN 0103-5665.

When psychoanalysis became interested in the origins of psychic life of the baby, this interest focused on the mother-child relationship from the baby birth. From the object relations theory, some authors of the English School of Psychoanalysis began to rethink the baby from life pre and postnatal and how these experiences influence its psychic life. Thus, this paper aims to analyze the first mother-child relationship from three theoretical propositions: the birth trauma, the observation of babies in the womb, through ultrasound and the baby observation method in preventing psychological traumas. These theories are analyzed through Donald W. Winnicott’s approach, named: the theory of emotional development and the concept of body memory, which emphasizes intrauterine experiences felt by the fetus and the baby contact with the mother in terms of physicality of alive bodies after his birth. The author concludes that the first mother-child relations, pre and postnatal, are in themselves pathways to mental health of the adult.

: parent-infant relationship; birth trauma; body memories; primitive emotional development; Winnicott.

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