Blind Women and Motherhood

Although in the past they were not allowed to procreate, to be pregnant or to become parents, blind and visually deficient mothers now have more freedom. In this work, we will make a clinical study of the pre- and post-natal desire for children, the imaginary infant and the real baby. This new attitude demands an accompaniment both on the psychological and on the pratical level with adapted pediatric nursing. The study of the father/mother/infant relations (sometimes including the guide dog), offer us new notions about all the early mother/baby relations. We thus better understand to what degree visual exchanges had taken up all of our attention until now.