Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary maternal-newborn care -- Culture and the childbearing family -- Reproductive anatomy and physiology -- Conception and fetal development -- Health promotion for women -- Common gynecologic problems -- Families with special reproductive concerns -- 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 --

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 -- The physiologic responses of the newborn to birth -- Nursing assessment of the newborn -- Normal newborn: needs and care -- Newborn nutrition -- The newborn at risk: conditions present at birth -- The newborn at risk: birth-related stressors -- Postpartal adaptation and nursing assessment -- The postpartal family: needs and care -- Home care of the postpartal family -- The postpartal family at risk.

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