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The Équipe mobile d’intervention ethnopsychiatrique (E.M.I.E.) team in Nancy hosts mothers and their babies in monthly group sessions, the aim of which are to support mothers who have been made vulnerable because of migration and sometimes because of situations of psychological and/or social vulnerability. The group provides inclusive and caring protection for mothers, babies, and co-mothers, which allows each of them to express their difficulties, their experiences, and also to find or rediscover their own potentials, their sometimes forgotten, neglected, or undervalued knowledge, and thus to reconnect with their cultural mothering practices. The group allows discussions to take place on representations of children’s needs and the care that should be provided for them. The sense of belonging to the group helps the mothers learn to reprioritize themselves and helps their babies to put their energy into discovering the world in total safety.