Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- The midwife's professional responsibilities in developing competences in new skills -- Complementary therapies in midwifery: a focus on moxibustion for breech presentation -- Ultrasonography in midwifery practice -- Reducing unnecessary caesarean section by external cephalic version -- Peripheral intravenous cannulation -- Midwives undertaking ventouse births -- Forceps-assisted birth -- Facilitating vaginal breech birth at term -- Perineal management and repair -- Haemodynamic assessment and monitoring in maternity care -- Physiological examination of the neonate -- Infant massage -- Postnatal physiologucal examination of the mother -- Working in new ways to advance midwifery skills in practice.