Table of Contents PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING 1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing 2. Families, Cultures, and Complementary Therapies PART II: WOMEN’S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN 3. Health Promotion 4. Family Planning 5. Commonly Occurring Infections 6. Women’s Health Problems 7. Social Issues 8. Violence Against Women PART III: HUMAN REPRODUCTION 9. Reproductive Physiology, Conception, and Fetal Development 10. Reproductive Genetics PART IV: PREGNANCY 11. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy 12. Antepartum Nursing Assessment 13. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care 14. Maternal Nutrition 15. Pregnancy in Selected Populations 16. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being 17. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems 18. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset PART V: LABOR AND BIRTH 19. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth 20. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment 21. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care 22. Pharmacologic Pain Management 23. Childbirth at Risk: Prelabor Onset Complications 24. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications 25. Birth-Related Procedures PART VI: THE NEWBORN 26. Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth 27. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn 28. The Normal Newborn: Needs and Care 29. Newborn Nutrition 30. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth 31. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors PART VII: POSTPARTUM 32. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment 33. The Postpartum Family: Needs and Care 34. Home Care of the Postpartum Family 35. The Postpartum Family at Risk 36. Grief and Loss in the Childbearing Family