Contemporary maternal-newborn nursing care / Patricia A. Wieland Ladewig, RN, PhD, Provost Emerita, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, Marcia L. London, RN, MSN, APRN, CNS, NNP-BC, Guest Lecturer and Director for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program (Ret.), Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Michele R. Davidson, RN, PhD, CNM, CFN, Associate Professor of Nursing and Women's Studies, Postpartum Psychosis Coordinator, Postpartum Support International, George Mason University, Fairfax University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS. 1. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Care ; 2. Family, Culture, and Complementary Health Approaches ; 3. Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology ; 4. Conception and Fetal Development -- PART II. WOMEN'S HEALTH: THE REPRODUCTIVE YEARS. 5. Health Promotion for Women ; 6. Common Gynecologic Problems ; 7. Families with Special Reproductive Concerns -- PART III. PREGNANCY AND THE FAMILY. 8. Physical and Psychologic Changes of Pregnancy ; 9. Antepartum Nursing Assessment ; 10. The Expectant Family: Needs and Care ; 11. Maternal Nutrition ; 12. Pregnancy in Selected Populations ; 13. Assessment of Fetal Well-Being ; 14. Pregnancy at Risk: Pregestational Problems ; 15. Pregnancy at Risk: Gestational Onset -- PART IV. BIRTH AND THE FAMILY. 16. Processes and Stages of Labor and Birth ; 17. Intrapartum Nursing Assessment ; 18. The Family in Childbirth: Needs and Care ; 19. Pharmacologic Pain Management ; 20. Childbirth at Risk: Pre-Labor and Intrapartum Complications ; 21. Childbirth at Risk: Labor-Related Complications ; 22. Birth-Related Procedures -- PART V. THE NEWBORN. 23. The Physiologic Responses of the Newborn to Birth ; 24. Nursing Assessment of the Newborn ; 25. The Normal Newborn: Needs, Care, and Feeding ; 26. The Newborn at Risk: Conditions Present at Birth ; 27. The Newborn at Risk: Birth-Related Stressors -- PART VI. POSTPARTUM. 28. Postpartum Adaptation and Nursing Assessment ; 29. The Postpartum Family: Early Care Needs and Home Care ; 30. The Postpartum Family at Risk.