Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Maternity care today -- The nurse's role in maternity and women's health care -- Ethical, social, and legal issues -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Hereditary and environmental influences on childbearing -- Conception and prenatal development -- Physiologic adaptations to pregnancy -- Psychosocial adaptations to pregnancy -- Nutrition for childbearing -- Antepartal fetal assessment -- Perinatal education -- Processes of birth -- nursing care during labor and birth -- Intrapartum fetal surveillance -- Pain management during childbirth -- Nursing care during obstetric procedures -- Postpartum physiologic adaptations -- Postpartum psychosocial adaptations -- Normal newborn: processes of adaptation -- Assessment of the normal newborn -- Care of the normal newborn -- Infant feeding -- Home care of the infant -- The childbearing family with special needs -- Complications of pregnancy -- Concurrent disorders during pregnancy -- Intrapartum complications -- Postpartum maternal complications -- High-risk newborn: complications associated with gestational age and development -- High risk newborn: acquired and congenital conditions -- Family planning -- Infertility -- Women's health care