Approaching birth with confidence -- Choosing your health care provider and birth setting -- Preparing for childbirth -- Your developing pregnancy and prenatal care -- Taking care of yourself -- Relationships, sex, and emotional support -- Prenatal testing -- Special concerns during pregnancy -- Childbearing loss -- Labor and birth -- Coping with pain -- Special concerns during labor and birth -- Cesarean births -- Your physical recovery and your newborn -- Feeding your baby -- Life as a new mother -- Advocating for better maternity care -- Advocating for mothers and families.