Maternal, Newborn and Pediatric Nursing
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS Pharmacology, MEd, MBA · Updated October 20, 2026
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- 1Family-Centred Care, Reproductive Health, Equity and AccountabilityThe Family as the Unit of Care, Reproductive Anatomy and the Menstrual Cycle, Menstrual Disorders, Contraception and Fertility
- 2Conception, Fetal Development and GeneticsFrom Gametes to Implantation, The Embryo, the Fetus and the Windows of Vulnerability, The Placenta, Membranes, Cord and Fetal Circulation
- 3The Antepartum Period: Adaptation and Prenatal CareConfirming, Dating and Beginning: The First Prenatal Visit, Maternal Physiological Adaptation, System by System, The Rhythm of Prenatal Care: Visits, Screening and Fetal Surveillance
- 4High-Risk Pregnancy and Antepartum ComplicationsNaming the Risk and Watching the Fetus We Cannot See, Bleeding in Pregnancy: Early Loss and Late Haemorrhage, Hypertensive Disorders and Magnesium Sulfate Safety
- 5Labour and BirthThe Five Ps: What Decides Whether a Birth Can Happen, The Mechanisms and Stages of Labour, Reading the Fetal Heart and Restoring Oxygen
- 6Intrapartum Complications and Obstetric EmergenciesReading the Fetal Heart, When the Labour Pattern Deviates, Sudden Intrapartum Emergencies
- 7The Postpartum PeriodInvolution: How the Reproductive Tract Comes Home, Systemic Adaptation and the Structured Assessment, Postpartum Haemorrhage: the Sequence That Saves
- 8Postpartum ComplicationsEarly Postpartum Haemorrhage and the First Ten Minutes, Trauma, Tissue, Thrombin and Uterine Inversion, Puerperal Infection, Mastitis and Maternal Sepsis
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- 9The Newborn: Transition, Assessment and CareTransition to Extrauterine Life, APGAR, Gestational Age and the Newborn Examination, Thermoregulation, Cold Stress and Glucose
- 10The High-Risk NewbornWho Counts as High Risk: Age, Growth and the Birth Itself, The Golden Minute: Resuscitation and Respiratory Distress, Warmth, Sugar and Fluid: The Metabolic Newborn
- 11Paediatric Growth, Development and Health PromotionHow Children Grow: Principles, Patterns and Measurement, Developmental Theory and the Child at Each Age, Nutrition, Feeding, Sleep and Immunisation
- 12Paediatric Respiratory and Cardiovascular ConditionsThe Paediatric Airway, the Paediatric Heart and What the Numbers Mean, Upper Airway Obstruction: Croup, Epiglottitis and Aspiration, Lower Airway and Parenchymal Disease
- 13Paediatric Systemic and Chronic ConditionsFluid Balance, Dehydration and the Gastrointestinal Tract, Renal, Genitourinary and Endocrine Conditions, Blood, Cancer and Immune Conditions
- 14The Child in Crisis: Emergencies, Safeguarding and the FamilyThe First Sixty Seconds: Reading the Deteriorating Child, Fluids, Dehydration and the Arithmetic of a Small Body, Paediatric Emergencies: When the Sequence Saves the Life
Written by Dr. Akash Garg
Doctor of Chiropractic, MS in Pharmacology, MEd and MBA. Teaching college science since 2007.