Includes appendix, glossary and index.

Contents: Introduction to maternity nursing: Contemporary maternity care -- Family-centered maternity care -- The Role of the nurse in the maternity care -- Dynamics of human reproduction: Psychosocial aspects of childbearing -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Sexuality -- Fertility and infertility -- Family planning -- Genetics and genetic counseling -- Physiology of pregnancy -- Fetal development and assessment -- Individual and family adaptation to pregnancy -- Nutritional aspects of pregnancy -- Nursing assessment of the pregnant woman -- Teaching and counseling the expectant couple -- Complications of pregnancy -- Preparation for childbirth -- The process of labor and birth -- Nursing care in labor and birth -- Risk reduction in the intrapartal period -- Nursing care of the family with major intrapartal complications -- Nursing care of the family in the postpartum period -- Postpartum complications -- Assessment of the normal neonate -- Nursing care of the normal neonate -- Risk assessment in the neonate -- Nursing care of the high-risk neonate -- Nutritional aspects of the fourth trimester -- Family integration in the fourth trimester.