PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR NURSING CARE OF THE CHILDBEARING FAMILIES
1. Maternity and Women’s Health Care Today
2. Social, Ethical and Legal Issues
3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology
4. Hereditary and Environmental Influences on Childbearing
PART II: THE FAMILY BEFORE BIRTH
5. Conception and Prenatal Development
6. Maternal Adaptations to Pregnancy
7. Antepartum Assessment, Care and Education
8. Nutrition for Childbearing
9. Assessing the Fetus
10. Complications of Pregnancy
11. The Childbearing Family with Special Needs
PART III: THE FAMILY DURING BIRTH
12. Processes of Birth
13. Pain management during Childbirth
14. Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance
15. Nursing Care During Labor and Birth
16. Intrapartum Complications
PART IV: THE FAMILY FOLLOWING BIRTH
17. Postpartum Adaptations and Nursing Care
18. Postpartum Maternal Complications
19. Normal Newborn: Processes of Adaptation
20. Assessment of the Normal Newborn
21. Care of the Normal Newborn
22. Infant Feeding
23. High-Risk Newborn: Complications Associated with Gestational Age and Development
24. High-Risk Newborn: Acquired and Congenital Conditions
PART VI: WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE
25. Family Planning
26. Infertility
27. Women’s Health Care
Appendixes
A. Use of Drugs and Botanical Preparations during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
B. Answers to Knowledge Check
C. Answers to Critical Thinking Exercises
Glossary
