- This perfectly blended book on maternal and child care nursing is a textbook conceived and written to be a combination of two aspects of one case - Though maternal and newborn"s nursing is provided in a variety of settings varying from homes, health centers and hospital units and occasionally in ICU, but there are potential risks at every stage that need to be managed by expert doctors and qualified nurses - This book explains every aspect of providing care to pregnant women during prenatal, intranatal and postnatal periods as well as for newborns in their transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life and early neonatal period