Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing: Current issues in maternal -newborn nursing -- Tools for critical thinking in maternal-newborn nursing -- The family in contemporary society -- Client teaching -- Human Reproduction: The reproductive system -- Conception and fetal development -- Special reproductive concerns -- Women's health throughout the lifespan: Women's care: Social issues -- Women's sexuality -- Women's health problems -- Violence against women -- Pregnancy: Preparation for childbirth -- Physical and psychologic changes of pregnancy -- Antepartal nursing assessment -- The expectant family: Needs and care -- The expectant family: Age-related considerations -- 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 -- Maternal analgesia and anesthesia -- Childbirth at risk -- Obstetric procedures: The role of the nurse -- The newborn: Physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- The normal newborn: needs 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 -- Attachment -- The postpartal family at risk.