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The usefulness of prenatal support groups for prospective parents who will have a newborn requiring admission to the NICU has never been investigated. Methods: We assessed the needs of NICU parents regarding topics they would have wished to discuss prenatally and developed the content of a prenatal support workshop. A standardized survey prospectively evaluated the perspectives of pregnant women admitted to a high-risk pregnancy unit who participated in the resulting workshops. Results: During needs assessment, 295 parents invoked themes they would have wished to discuss antenatally: parental guilt, future parental role, normalizing their experience\/emotions, coping with many losses, adapting to their new reality, control and trust, information about the NICU, technology around the baby, common neonatal interventions, the NICU clinical team, and the role of parents in the team. These findings were used to develop the workshop, including a moderator checklist and a visual presentation. Practical aspects of the meetings were tested\/finalized during a pre-pilot phase. Among 21 pregnant women who answered the survey (average gestational age 29.3 weeks), all agreed that the workshop was useful, that it made them feel less lonely (95%), that exchanges with other women were beneficial (95%) and gave them a certain amount of control over their situation (89%). All answers to open-ended questions were positive. Conclusion: Prenatal educational\/support workshops provide a unique and useful means to support future NICU parents. 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