"This book addresses all the common and important problems that occur during pregnancy, labour, delivery, and the puerperium. It includes booking for antenatal care, problems during the antenatal period, monitoring and managing the mother, fetus and progress during labour, medical problems during pregnancy, problems during the three stages of labourand the puerperium, family planning after pregnancy, and regionalised perinatal care. Skills workshops teach the general examination, abdominal and vaginal examination in pregnancy and labour, screening for syphilis and HIV, use of an antenatal card and partogram, and performing and repairing an episiotomy. Maternal care is aimed at professional healthcare workers in level 1 hospitals or clinics."--Page 10.