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Our reflection about the place of the father during the nursing of a newborn baby is based on two complementary clinical techniques : direct observation of nursing, following a protocol called the Prague Scale (Prague Newborn Behavior Description Technique), and therapeutic consultations in maternity and neonatology wards when there is an indication of early parental psychopathology. The knowledge of the Prague scale has led us to hypothesize that nursing is an encounter, from the very beginning of life, between two people. This assumes that there is a space, both on the physical and psychic levels in which this encounter can unfold, and in which the newborn baby manifests his own bodily and emotional movements toward his mother, movements we will refer to drive motion. We will demonstrate that this space can be related to the paternal function in accordance with D. Houzel’s hypothesis about the bisexuality of the primary psychic container, interwoven with maternal and paternal elements which echo the internal parental functions of the parents. We will support our proposition by means of observations of nursing in non-clinical families and then we will show how, in certain cases of psychopathology in parentality, the lack of sufficient intrication between the paternal and maternal functions can destroy the space between the mother and the baby. We will demonstrate signs of early suffering in the body-movement-emotional integration in the newborn baby. This study helps us to envisage the kind of psychic attention which is useful in preventive clinical work in perinatality.