Maternal, Newborn and Pediatric Nursing
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS, MBA, MEd · 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, MS in Management and Leadership, MBA, and MEd degrees in Chemistry, English, Higher Education and Learning Experience Design. Teaching college science since 2007.