Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.
Part I. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- A place where verbalisation has no meaning -- A research journey to this place where verbalisation has no meaning -- Part II. Mothers' and babies' journeys in the first three years of life -- Maiara and her twins, Raoni and Anahi: one womb to gestate two, each in its own time -- Lucia and her twins, Daniela and Renata: the birth of fraternity in the struggle against maternal indiscrimination -- Tânia and her daughter, Julie: the creative recovery of discontinuities in a tailor-made space of protection, care, and mutual growth -- Alice and her daughter, Valentina: a ferocious struggle to be born -- Philomena: an inner journey back to the beginning -- Part III. Back to the beginning -- The challenges and contributions of this "descent to the realm of the mothers."