# Procedures and birth care

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Browse, care area: Labour and birth; Recovery after birth; Newborn care  

## In plain language

Pages about hands-on care around birth, such as starting labour, caesarean birth, clamping the cord and devices that help control bleeding.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for procedures and devices used in labour and birth and in the control of bleeding after birth, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Labour and birth (`maternal:labour-and-birth`)
- Includes: Caesarean birth (`maternal:caesarean-birth`)
- Includes: Delayed umbilical cord clamping (`maternal:delayed-cord-clamping`)
- Includes: Epidural pain relief in labour (`maternal:epidural-labour-analgesia`)
- Includes: Induction of labour (`maternal:induction-of-labour`)
- Includes: Uterine balloon or vacuum tamponade for postpartum haemorrhage (`maternal:uterine-balloon-tamponade`)
- Includes: Bakri Postpartum Balloon (`maternal:bakri-postpartum-balloon`)
- Includes: Cook Cervical Ripening Balloon (`maternal:cook-cervical-ripening-balloon`)
- Includes: Jada System (intrauterine vacuum device) (`maternal:jada-system`)

## Provenance

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