Includes index.

Contents: Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing: Current issues in maternal-newborn nursing -- Care of the family in a culturally diverse society -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Women's health: Women's health across the life span -- Women's health: Family planning -- Women's health: Commonly occuring infections -- Women's health problems -- Women's care: Social issues -- Violence against women -- Human reproduction: The reproductive system -- Conception and fetal development -- Special reproductive concerns -- Pregnancy: Preparation for parenthood -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartal nursing assessment -- The expectant family: Needs and care -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Maternal nutrition -- Pregnancy at risk: Pregestational problems -- Pregnancy at risk: Gestational onset -- Assessment of fetal well-being -- Birth: Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartal nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth: Needs and care -- Pain management during labor -- Childbirth at risk: The intrapartal period -- Birth-related procedures -- Physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- The normal newborn: Needs and care -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk: Conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk: Birth-related stressors -- Postpartum: Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartal family: Needs and care -- Home care of the postpartal family -- The postpartal family at risk.