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The transcultural consultation of the University hospital of Bordeaux welcomes young migrant women, who are minors, with their newborn baby. We explore how our multidisciplinary group care, with a complementary methodology, drawing on psychoanalysis and anthropology non- simultaneously, is capable of supporting them in their emerging maternity by taking into account their youth, their precarious exile and their solitude. With reference to a clinical situation of a young woman from West Africa who had conceived a girl following an incestuous relationship with her step-father, we analyse how the group settings of psychotherapy and of a workshop “Welcoming the newborn baby” helped to support her through transcultural psychotherapy and the close observation of the mother-baby interactions. The aim is to restore an area of illusion in the dyad and to work through the maternal mourning of the young woman.