Ante/Intra/Postpartum and Newborn Care

Welcome to the fascinating, dynamic, and wonderfully mechanical world of maternal-newborn nursing. If you just memorize a list of clinical signs, you’ll be easily tripped up on your NCLEX-PN. But if you understand how the machinery of the human body actually works during pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period, the right answers will become completely obvious to you. Nature is an incredible engineer!

Let’s pull back the curtain and look at the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods not as isolated textbook chapters, but as one beautiful, continuous physical and emotional process.