Midwifery (ANM I Year) Text Book

Midwifery is a Hindi medium ANM textbook covering pregnancy, labour, the newborn, safe motherhood and reproductive health for auxiliary nurse midwives. The normal midwifery chapters cover the human reproductive system, the female pelvis and foetal skull, the foetus and placenta, normal pregnancy, antenatal care, normal labour and care during labour, the normal puerperium, care of the newborn and the high-risk newborn, and safe motherhood. The book then deals with high-risk pregnancies, abnormalities of pregnancy, abortion, abnormal childbirth, abnormal puerperium, surgical intervention and medications used in midwifery. The reproductive health chapters cover the life cycle approach, status of women and empowerment, reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, infertility, population education and family welfare. The book has 504 pages (2026 edition) and is written by Neha, Sweta Shaurabh and Ritika Kumari, with contributors. For ANM students preparing for the Midwifery examination and their maternal and child health field work.