[Inferences drawn from communication in a neonatal pathology ward]

The general process of communication is reviewed in order to ascertain how neonatologists should approach not-verbal, not intentional messages coming from premature newborns, which ask suitable answers from a therapeutic and educational point of view. The author recalls the Als Synactive Theory that enables to understand the signals coming from the newborn allowing all the care-gives to reply coherently to expressed physical and physiological needs.