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