Includes appendix, glossary and index.

Contents: Part One: Contemporary maternal newborn nursing: Current issues in maternal-newborn nursing -- Community-based teaching for childbearing families -- Part Two: Women's health throughout the lifespan: Women's health care -- Assisting with a pelvic examination -- Women's care: Social issues -- Violence against women -- Part three: Human reproduction: The reproductive system -- Conception and fetal development -- Special reproductive concerns -- Part four: 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 -- Part five: Birth: Processes and stages of labor and birth -- Intrapartal nursing assessment -- The family in childbirth: Needs and care -- Pain management during birth -- Childbirth at risk -- Birth-related procedures -- Part six: The newborn: 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 -- Part seven: Postpartum: Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartal family: Needs and care -- Home care of the postpartal family -- The postpartal family at risk.