# Medicines and vaccines

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Browse, care area: Pregnancy conditions; Labour and birth; Recovery after birth; Breastfeeding and lactation; Mental health; Newborn care; Preterm and sick newborns; The baby's first year  

## In plain language

Pages about medicines and vaccines given in pregnancy, at birth, after birth or to the baby. Each page says who receives it, the mother or the baby.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for drugs, drug classes and vaccines used in pregnancy, labour, the postpartum period and the newborn, filed here with part\_of. Each record keeps its own population. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Vaccines in infancy and pregnancy (`maternal:infant-immunization`)
- Includes: Eclampsia (mother) (`maternal:eclampsia`)
- Includes: Whooping cough (pertussis) in young infants (`maternal:infant-pertussis`)
- Includes: RSV lower respiratory tract disease in infants (`maternal:infant-rsv-disease`)
- Includes: Mastitis and related breast inflammation during breastfeeding (mother) (`maternal:lactational-mastitis`)
- Includes: Aflibercept (`maternal:aflibercept`)
- Includes: Brexanolone (`maternal:brexanolone`)
- Includes: Caffeine citrate (`maternal:caffeine-citrate`)
- Includes: Carbetocin (heat-stable formulation) (`maternal:carbetocin`)
- Includes: Dinoprostone (`maternal:dinoprostone`)
- Includes: Magnesium sulfate (`maternal:magnesium-sulfate`)
- Includes: Nirsevimab (`maternal:nirsevimab`)
- Includes: Oxytocin (`maternal:oxytocin`)
- Includes: Poractant alfa (`maternal:poractant-alfa`)
- Includes: Pulmonary surfactants (class) (`maternal:pulmonary-surfactants`)
- Includes: RSVpreF (bivalent RSV prefusion F protein vaccine) (`maternal:rsvpref-vaccine`)
- Includes: Tranexamic acid (`maternal:tranexamic-acid`)
- Includes: Zuranolone (`maternal:zuranolone`)
- Includes: Antenatal corticosteroids (`maternal:antenatal-corticosteroids`)
- Includes: Antihypertensive drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy (`maternal:antihypertensive-treatment-non-severe-hypertension-pregnancy`)
- Includes: Treatment of gestational diabetes (diet, glucose monitoring, insulin or metformin) (`maternal:gdm-treatment`)
- Includes: Magnesium sulfate to prevent and treat eclampsia (`maternal:magnesium-sulfate-eclampsia`)
- Includes: Magnesium sulfate before very preterm birth to protect the baby's brain (`maternal:magnesium-sulfate-fetal-neuroprotection`)
- Includes: RSV vaccination in pregnancy to protect the infant (`maternal:maternal-rsv-vaccination`)
- Includes: Tdap vaccination in pregnancy to protect the infant from whooping cough (`maternal:maternal-tdap-vaccination`)
- Includes: Tranexamic acid to prevent bleeding after birth (`maternal:tranexamic-acid-pph-prevention`)
- Includes: Tranexamic acid for treating postpartum haemorrhage (`maternal:tranexamic-acid-pph-treatment`)
- Includes: Medicine to prevent heavy bleeding right after birth (oxytocin or another uterotonic) (`maternal:uterotonic-pph-prevention`)
- Includes: Vitamin K at birth (`maternal:vitamin-k-prophylaxis`)
- Includes: Abrysvo (RSV vaccine, Pfizer) (`maternal:abrysvo`)
- Includes: Beyfortus (nirsevimab) (`maternal:beyfortus`)
- Includes: Cafcit (caffeine citrate) (`maternal:cafcit`)
- Includes: Cervidil (dinoprostone vaginal insert) (`maternal:cervidil`)
- Includes: Curosurf (poractant alfa) (`maternal:curosurf`)
- Includes: Eylea (aflibercept) for retinopathy of prematurity (`maternal:eylea-rop`)
- Includes: Pitocin (oxytocin injection) (`maternal:pitocin`)
- Includes: Zulresso (brexanolone injection) (`maternal:zulresso`)
- Includes: Zurzuvae (zuranolone) (`maternal:zurzuvae`)

## Provenance

Content hash: bed40a1f20bc4cdaeabe254ffe0c18d1c60affde1e3876e679adf1b582db10c6
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded