Una vivencia, una enseñanza de vida: una aproximación desde la autoetnografía

Taking as a starting point my personal and professional experience, within the framework of writing and the autoethnographic analysis that I have developed, as the object of study for my doctoral thesis. I have compiled some relevant lived situations that have been there. Some of them, obvious and others hidden in time, that have allowed me to now free myself to question myself as a man, a professional and as a father, thus becoming the root of a part of my doctoral thesis work. Training and dedicating myself as a neonatal nurse, in addition to the experience of being the father of a child with Down Syndrome, has enabled me to provide support to families of newborns diagnosed with Down Syndrome, through my own experience. In this narration I show the possible interactions that can arise between a family and health professionals in a difficult situation.