Attitudes and conduct -- Legal considerations -- Maternal and perinatal mortality -- Delivery room -- Admission to the labour ward -- Admission emergencies -- Normal labour and delivery -- Intrapartum nutrition and electrolytes -- Analgesia and anaesthesia -- Intrapartum fetal surveillance -- Episiotomy and tears -- Newborn -- Preterm labour and preterm premature rupture of membranes -- Abnormal labour -- Induction and augmentation of labour -- Assisted vaginal delivery and complications -- Caesarean section -- Emergencies in the immediate puerperium -- Malpresentation and malpositions -- Breech -- Twins and multiple deliveries -- Medical complications -- Fetal and maternal misadventure.