Obstetrical Nursing / A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby

Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

PART II The Development of the Baby

PART III The Expectant Mother

PART IV The Birth of the Baby

PART V The Young Mother

PART VI THE MATERNITY PATIENT IN THE COMMUNITY

PART VII THE CARE OF THE BABY

INDEX

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE CARESS

From the painting by Gari Melchers

I hold you close: and I could cry
Because you seem so new and dear;
And such a helpless warder I
To keep your candle burning clear:

The curious candle of your breath,

Body’s and spirit’s throbbing breath.

Fanny Stearns Gifford.

OBSTETRICAL NURSING
A TEXT-BOOK ON THE NURSING CARE OF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER, THE WOMAN IN LABOR, THE YOUNG MOTHER AND HER BABY

CAROLYN CONANT VAN BLARCOM, R.N.

Formerly, assistant superintendent and instructor in obstetrical nursing and the care of infants and children at the johns hopkins hospital training school for nurses

Author of

“The Midwife in England”

WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS AND 8 CHARTS

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1922.

Press of

J. J. Little & Ives Company

New York, U. S. A.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO THE

SPIRIT OF HELPFULNESS

WHICH HAS MADE ITS PREPARATION

POSSIBLE WITH THE HOPE THAT IT

MAY BE OF HELP TO THOSE NURSES

WHO TAKE YOUNG MOTHERS AND BABIES

INTO THEIR CARE.

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OBSTETRICAL NURSING A TEXT-BOOK ON THE NURSING CARE OF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER, THE WOMAN IN LABOR, THE YOUNG MOTHER AND HER BABY

OBSTETRICAL NURSING
A TEXT-BOOK ON THE NURSING CARE OF THE EXPECTANT MOTHER, THE WOMAN IN LABOR, THE YOUNG MOTHER AND HER BABY