[Pregnancy and breastfeeding]

Several Authors, confronting the mother-child relationship during pregnancy and breast-feeding, talk about an uterine an extra-uterine symbiosis. In this way, one bypasses the fact that the so called unions end with the processes of separation constituted by the partiurition/birth [by the termination, that is to say, of the first maternal nurturing (that of placenta), as well as by the termination of the second maternal nurturing (that of the individual breast-feedings)]. The attentive observation of these unions demonstrates that they coexist and they imply equilibrium through the processes of separation that not only allow a partial autonomy of the developments of mother and child, but also make room for the detachments represented by the parturition/birth and by the end of the individual breast feedings. The Author is trying to illustrate some physiological and pathological equilibriums between these tendencies towards reciprocal dependence and reciprocal mother-child autonomy.