Table 1 Reported methods to manage retained placental products among 100 Kenyan traditional birth attendants

Refer to health facility

61 %

Uterine massage

47 %

Manual extraction

15 %

Administer oxytocin

6 %

Other

16 %

 Administer lantana leaves, herbs, or herbal oxytocin

9 %

 Cooking stick or chain of beads down mother’s throat

3 %

 Put beads down mother’s throat and rub a stone on the spine

1 %

 Rub a grinding stone on mother’s back

1 %

 Give mother hot porridge

1 %

 Nipple massage

1 %