Contents: Unit 1: Antepartum: Reproductive cycle: contraception and conception -- Fetal development -- Normal physiological changes of pregnancy -- Nutrition and pregnancy -- Perinatal cultural awareness -- Prenatal and childbirth education -- Antepartum: diagnostic interventions -- Complications of pregnancy -- Unit 2:: Intrapartum: Labor and birth processes -- Pain management: pharmalogic and nonpharmalogic -- Fetal assessment during labor -- Nursing care during stages of labor -- Therapeutic procedures to assist with labor and birth -- Complications of labor and birth -- Unit 3: Postpartum: Postpartum physiological changes and nursing care -- Bonding and integration of infant into family structure -- Assessment and management of pospartum complications -- Unit 4: Newborn care: Newborn assessment - Nursing care of the newborn -- Meeting the nutritional needs of newborns -- Circumcision -- Assessment and management of newborn complications -- Discharge teaching: Newborn care --