The purpose of this paper is to present a listening model for issues involving motherhood. In order to establish this psychoanalytical listening place within an institutional scope, it was initially necessary to broaden the understanding of the vicissitudes inherent to being a mother. A method based on support was used to offer care to women whose babies were hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Based on this case, it was possible to present a listening model that is based on psychoanalytical references, but which, at the same time, expands the traditional psychoanalysis model.
Psychoanalytic listening; motherhood; mother-baby relationship; case presentation