Table 1.

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

Method	% TBAs report have ever used methoda
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 %

^aTBAs were allowed to give more than one response; therefore, percentages do not total to 100 %