Published by WAPM and MATRES MUNDI INTERNATIONAL in collaboration with the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PERINATAL MEDICINE and financed by the ORDESA Foundation.
This is a book especially aimed at perinatal specialists in developing countries.
Editor-in-chief: Jose Maria Carrera, Secretary General of the IAPM. General Coordinators: Xavier Carbonyl, working groups coordinator of the WAPM and Ernesto Fabre, Vice-President of Matres Mundi.
The book as 48 chapters grouped into 5 sections: a general section, pregnancy, labour, the puerperal period, newborn and there is also a section on specific recommendations. 102 authors from all over the world collaborated on it.