Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nurse's role in a changing maternal-newborn healthcare environment -- Family-centered and community-based maternal and newborn nursing -- Structure and function of the reproductive system -- Special issues of reproduction and women's health care -- Fetal development -- Maternal adaptation during pregnancy -- Prenatal care -- The labor process -- Pain management during labor and birth -- Nursing care during labor and birth -- Assisted delivery and cesarean birth -- The postpartum woman -- Newborn adaptation to life outside the womb -- Infant nutrition -- The normal newborn --.

Pregnancy at risk: conditions that complicate pregnancy -- Pregnancy at risk: pregnancy-related complications -- Labor at risk -- Postpartum woman at risk -- The newborn at risk: gestational and acquired disorders -- The newborn at risk: congenital disorders.

All age.