Pregnancy is a wonderful experience in a womans life. It is a story of how we as humans came to life from the minute the embryo is developed through fertilization up to the time the fetus is born, is indeed a great phenomenon. Teaching Maternal-Child Health Nursing is challenging and at the same time enjoyable considering the authors have been through the nine wonder months of pregnancy and have given birth normally and surgically. It provides experiential teaching and learning. This manual is designed to assist instructors and students during their Obstetrics lecture and related learning activities. Please bear in mind that the instructors style and teaching strategies may vary. It is also the objective of this manual to require the students to take down notes that is why most of the contents are left blank for them to write down during lectures. We believe that writing produces schemata in our brains that when constantly used will remain activated. That is the beauty of taking notes. So my dear students enjoy the lectures as well as the writing.

JANE MAPUSAO-PECSON is the Level II Coordinator and an Asso. Prof. of Bicol University College of Nursing for the past 19 years. MARY JOY BASALLOTE-SANDE is an Assistant Prof III of Bicol University College of Nursing and is currently on Dissertation writing for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Education at St. Paul Univerity Manila.