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Pregnancy Overview
Fetal Development And Maternal Physiology
Preconceptional Counseling And Prenatal Care
Common Medical And Surgical Problems Of Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications
Labor And Delivery
Operative Obstetrics
Puerperium
Placental Development And Pathology

Obstetrics

Pregnancy overview

The Diagnosis of Pregnancy
Albert J. Peters
Anatomy of the Pelvis
John O. DeLancey
Nutrition in Pregnancy
Irene Hoesli
Exercise and Physical Activity During Pregnancy
Pamela Shrock
Hyperemesis in Pregnancy
Environmental and Occupational Concerns in Pregnancy
Linda M. Frazier
Pregnancy in Adolescence
Jane E. Dopkins Broecker and Paula J. Adams Hillard
Preconceptional medicine

Fetal development and maternal physiology

Development and Physiology of the Placenta and Membranes
Robert A. Ahokas and Elizabeth T. McKinney
Anatomic Aspects of Fetal Development
Sheldon B. Korones
Physiology of Pregnancy
Mel L. Barclay
Prenatal Development: Growth, Differentiation, and Their Disturbances
Jan E. Jirásek
Influence of Pregnancy on the Oral Cavity
Peter J. Robinson and Michael Schmerman

Preconceptional counseling and prenatal care

Prenatal Care Documentation and Triage
John C. Hauth
The Prenatal Record and the Initial Prenatal Visit
Sharon T. Phelan
Education for Childbirth
Gayle L. Riedmann
Preparation for Parenthood
Gayle L. Riedmann
Preconception Counseling
Merry-K. Moose and Robert C. Cefalo

Common medical and surgical problems of pregnancy

Thromboembolic Disease
David C. Shaver
Dermatologic Diseases in Pregnancy
Lawrence Charles Parish and Jennifer L. Parish
Perinatal Infections
Rebecca L. Shiffman and Richard H. Schwarz
Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Pregnancy
Urinary Tract Infections in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gretchen M. Lentz

Pregnancy complications

Multiple Gestation: biology and epidemiology
Fiona L. Mackie, R. Katie Morris and Mark D. Kilby
Multiple Gestation: Antenatal Care
Louis G. Keith, Timothy R. Johnson and Geoffrey Machin
Management of Premature Rupture of the Membranes in Term Patients
Patrick Duff
Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes
Brian M. Mercer
Placenta Previa and Accreta
H. Jacob Saleh
Placental Abruption
Lami Yeo, Cande V. Ananth and Anthony M. Vintzileos
Postdatism
Kathleen M. Berkowitz and Thomas J. Garite

Labor and delivery

Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
Christopher C. B-Lynch and Matthew Mak
Presentation and Mechanisms of Labor
José A. López-Zeno
Normal Labor and Delivery
Lisa Harrington
Induction of Labor
Abnormal Labor: Diagnosis and Management
Kathryn J. Drennan, Sean Blackwell and Robert J. Sokol
Abnormal Fetal Lie and Presentation
Martin L. Gimovsky
Umbilical Cord Prolapse and Other Cord Emergencies
Marybeth Lore
Shoulder Dystocia
Robert B. Gherman and Bernard Gonik
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Multiple Gestation: Labor and Delivery
Louis G. Keith and Timothy R. Johnson
Higher-Order Multiple Gestations
Louis G. Keith
Analgesia and Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery
Cynthia A. Wong

Operative obstetrics

Forceps Delivery and Vacuum Extraction
Allan G. Charles
Cesarean Birth: Surgical Techniques
Osama Naji, Yazan Abdallah and Sara Paterson-Brown
Cesarean Hysterectomy
Claire L. Banks, Andrew M. Paterson and Andrew J. Thomson
Episiotomy
Aoife Mullally and Deirdre J. Murphy
Indications and Implications of Episiotomy
Deborah S. Lyon

Puerperium

Puerperal Mastitis
Barbara B. Hogg
Postpartum Care
Deborah S. Lyon
Circumcision: Ritual and Surgery
John O’Grady and Carolyn J. Taugher
Postpartum Sterilization Procedures
Justin T. Diedrich, Elizabeth O. Schmidt and David L. Eisenberg
Nutrition and Lactation
Joan V. Eggert and Larry D. Eggert
The Normal Neonate: Assessment of Early Physical Findings
Jonathan E. O’Brien, Tracy Taylor Rinehart, Kelly M. Orzechowski and Dom A. Terrone

Placental development and pathology

Placental Development and Early Pregnancy Pathology
Carolyn M. Salafia and Edwina J. Popek
Mechanical Pathophysiology of the Placenta
Carolyn M. Salafia and Edwina J. Popek
Inflammatory and Vascular Placental Pathology
Carolyn M. Salafia and Edwina J. Popek
Placental Transmission of Antibiotics
Scott W. Roberts, Michael Hnat and Roger E. Bawdon
Placental Physiology
Thomas McNanley and James Woods
Uterine and Placental Blood Flow
Frank C. Greiss