Part A: Partners Section One: Context Chapter 1 Australian and New Zealand health and maternity services Karen Guilliland, Sally Tracy and Carol Thorogood Chapter 2 The Australian and New Zealand context Jill White Chapter 3 Understanding world views of midwifery Karen Lane Chapter 4 Risk and safety Joan Skinner Chapter 5 Ways of looking at evidence and measurement Sally Tracy Chapter 6 Place of birth Maralyn Foureur and Marion Hunter Section Two: The woman Chapter 7 Challenges to women''s health Carol Thorogood Chapter 8 Working with Maori women: challenges for midwives Hope Tupara Chapter 9 Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske and Juanita Sherwood Chapter 10 Options for women around fertility and reproduction Sally K Tracy Chapter 11 Transitions Jan Pincombe, Trudy Hart and Tracy Reibel Section Three: The midwife Chapter 12 Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand Sally Pairman and Roslyn Donnellan-Fernandez Chapter 13 Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand Helen Newnham and Carla Humphrey Chapter 14 Ethical frameworks for practice Lynley Anderson and Bronwen Pelvin Chapter 15 Life skills for midwifery practice Bronwen Pelvin Part B: Practice Section One: Partnership Chapter 16 Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice Sally Pairman and Judith McAra-Couper Chapter 17 Working in partnership Nicky Leap and Sally Pairman Chapter 18 Working in collaboration Suzanne Miller and Sally K Tracy Chapter 19 Promoting physiological birth Nicky Leap Section Two: Autonomous practice Chapter 20 The physiology of conception and pregnancy Sally Baddock Chapter 21 Nutritional foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation Sandra L Elias and Megan Gibbons Chapter 22 Working with women in pregnancy Celia Grigg Chapter 23 Physiological changes during labour Sally Baddock Chapter 24 Supporting women in labour and birth Juliet Thorpe and Jacqui Anderson Chapter 25 Working with pain in labour Nicky Leap and Stephanie Vague Chapter 26 Using water for labour and birth Robyn Maude and Shea Caplice Chapter 27 Perineal care and repair Hannah Dahlen Chapter 28 Physiological changes during the postnatal period Sally Baddock Chapter 29 Supporting women becoming mothers Lesley Dixon Chapter 30 Supporting the newborn infant Jackie Gunn Chapter 31 Supporting the breastfeeding mother Ann Henderson Chapter 32 Pharmacology and prescribing Marion Hunter and Jackie Gunn Chapter 33 Completing the midwife-woman partnership Rhondda Davies Chapter 34 Contraception Helen Calabretto Section Three: Collaborative practice Chapter 35 Screening and assessment Sally K Tracy Chapter 36 Challenges in pregnancy Carol Thorogood and Catherine Donaldson Chapter 37 Disturbances in the rhythm of labour Carol Thorogood and Catherine Donaldson Chapter 38 Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth Sally K Tracy Chapter 39 Life-threatening emergencies Carol Thorogood Chapter 40 Complications in the postnatal period Jenny Gamble and Debra Creedy Chapter 41 Complications of the newborn Monnia Volpi-Wise and Namisha Waller Chapter 42 Grief and loss during childbearing-the death of a baby Alison Stewart and Rhondda Davies.