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During the pregnancy, the family dreams intensely about the future. It seeks its roots and traces its destins. The magi, oracles and the rituals, the good or bad fairies open a virtual horizon for the family. The case of a couple which awaits twins and who dreams about their future family will illustrate this matter. But an antenatal announcement of a negative diagnosis, abruptly halts the investment in the future and the associated dreams. The medical act of the embryonic reduction in utero leaves only one embryo alive in the womb. The eliminated phantom baby seems to invade the future and takes precedence over the coming baby. A prenatal family therapy, with these future parents and the embryo in utero living and the dead embryo in utero, will be able to relaunch the hope for a possible family.