Table of Contents

1. Maternity Nursing in the Contemporary Health Care System.
2. Theoretical Perspectives on the Childbearing Family.
3. Complementary and Alternative Therapy.
4. Ethics, Laws, and Standards of Care.
5. Promoting Women's' Health.
6. Health Care Issues and Common Concerns.
7. Reproduction, Fertility, Infertility, and Family Planning.
8. Genetics and Genetic Counseling.
9. Normal Pregnancy.
10. Nursing Care of the Pregnant Woman.
11. Management and Nursing Care of High-Risk Clients.
12. Fetal Development.
13. Fetal Assessment.
14. Processes of Labor.
15. Nursing Care of the Intrapartal Family.
16. High-Risk Births and Obstetrical Emergencies.
17. Pain Management During Labor and Delivery.
18. Nursing Care of the Postpartum Family.
19. Complications of Postpartum and Neonatal Loss.
20. Lactation and Newborn Nutrition.
21. Transition to Extrauterine Life.
22. Care of the Normal Newborn.
23. Care of Newborns at Risk Due to Low Birthweight and Prematurity.
24. Care of the Newborn with Chronic and Acquired Conditions.

About the Author

Lynna Littleton-Gibbs is the Director of Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program. She is also a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and a retired Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas. Joan Engebretson is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas. She is also the Head of the Division of Women and Childbearing Families and Nursing for Target Populations.