Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary maternal-newborn care -- Culture and the childbearing family -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Conception and fetal development -- Health promotion for women -- Common gynecologic problems -- Families with special reproductive concerns -- Preparation for parenthood -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartal nursing assessment -- The expectant family -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Maternal nutrition -- Pregnancy at risk, pregestational problems -- Pregnancy at risk, gestational onset -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartal nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth -- Pain management during labor and birth -- Childbirth at risk -- Birth-related procedures -- Physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- The normal newborn -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk, conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk, birth-related stressors -- Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- Postpartal family -- Home care of the postpartal family -- Postpartal family at risk.

All age.

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