Announce a diagnosis to future parents, a difficult medical procedure

Séverine Colinet is a lecturer at the University of Cergy-Pontoise.

Céline Avenel is a doctor in educational sciences, research engineer at the Center for Support to Educational Innovations, I-Site MUSE, University of Montpellier, researcher associated with the Lirdef laboratory (EA 3749).

In France, chronic diseases affect around 20% of the population, or millions of people whose lives are heavily impacted on the psychological, social and economic levels. Announcing a diagnosis is part of the daily routine of doctors, and a certain number of recommendations guide them in these difficult times; specific protocols have even been developed in certain specialties, notably oncology. The fact remains that patients and practitioners are then faced with a particularly emotionally charged moment. We wanted to better understand its complexity, by collecting the words of doctors and couples whose unborn child was carrying a

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