The story of Simone starts with the mother's expressing her absolute need to tell the observer the intensity of the emotional experience of the birth, an experience that Mrs Harris defines as “stunning”. Simone in the first observation is in a state of restless sleep that Mrs Harris (following Mrs Bick) describes as “ordinary” or “normal” non-integration. In the following sessions we see how this is modified and overcome, when the nipple through the force of its attraction pulls together the functioning of the baby's eyes and mouth and starts the process of integration. The sessions in this first period demonstrate how for the mother the overwhelming impact of the birth is followed by the emergence of depressive anxiety relating to her uncertainty about her capacity to nurture the baby and to take on a genuinely maternal role. For this reason the mother maintains a certain distance from the baby that interferes initially with the process of the baby's introjection of the object.