ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the arts fit into a perinatal parent–infant frame to form a creative space for migrant mothers and their developing infants suffering from interrelational and emotional trauma. It draws from author experience of working as an art psychotherapist in perinatal parent–infant mental health within a large UK NHS Trust. Skin-to-skin touch is encouraged between parent and infant during the first moments of life to help re-orientate the baby to an outside-in connection and to ground the baby’s new existence.
