Sleep and methods of assessment / Carol A. Landis -- Sleep and circadian schedule disorders / Susan Labyak -- Insomnia / Dana R. Epstein and Richard R. Bootzin -- Sleep disordered breathing / Carol M. Baldwin and Stuart F. Quan -- Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder / Kathy P. Parker and David B. Rye -- Narcolepsy / Ann E. Rogers and H. Michael Dreher -- Sleep disorders in children / Teresa Ward and Thornton B.A. Mason II -- Women and sleep / Joan L.F. Shaver -- Sleep and aging / Judith A. Floyd -- Birth in the United States: an overview of trends past and present / William F. McCool and Sara A. Simeone -- Perspectives on the past, view of the present: relationship between nurse-midwifery and nursing in the United States / Kate Dawley -- Antepartum care in the twenty-first century / Barbara E. Posmontier -- Intrapartum care in the twenty-first century / Barbara Reale -- Technology in the birthing room / Susan R. Miesknik and Marilyn Stringer -- Politics in the birthing room / Dawn Durain -- Midwifery education today / Katherine Camacho Carr and Mary C. Brucker