ABSTRACT

That morning, as soon as I entered the neonatal intensive care service where I work as an analyst, I knew that emergency was in the air. We are very familiar with this particularly oppressive atmosphere: it is imbued with high tension, and, at the same time, with great calmness. Never a feeling of panic, no haste. The more precious the minutes, the more the team seems to be immersed in timelessness. Two little girls had been born an hour apart, their first names, Anne and Anna, almost identical, as the circumstances of their births had been.