[Hypothermia therapy for babies: an interminable wait for the parents].

Hypothermia therapy is a protocol put in place to treat neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in the first six hours after birth in order to prevent irreversible brain damage. The parents are therefore immediately separated from the newborn and endure an interminable 72-hour wait before being able to really meet their baby. Psychological support is therefore necessary to be able to think the unthinkable.