Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 18:3

אֵין מְיַלְּדִין אֶת הַבְּהֵמָה בְיוֹם טוֹב, אֲבָל מְסַעֲדִין. וּמְיַלְּדִין אֶת הָאִשָּׁה בְּשַׁבָּת, וְקוֹרִין לָהּ חֲכָמָה מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם, וּמְחַלְּלִין עָלֶיהָ אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת, וְקוֹשְׁרִין אֶת הַטַּבּוּר. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, אַף חוֹתְכִין. וְכָל צָרְכֵי מִילָה עוֹשִׂין בְּשַׁבָּת:

An animal is not delivered on a festival [The fetus is not pulled from the womb on a festival, this entailing inordinate exertion], but it is assisted [i.e., the fetus is held so that it not fall to the ground.] A woman is delivered on Shabbath, and an expert midwife is called for her from place to place [without concern for issur techumim (Sabbath-bound interdictions)], and the Sabbath is desecrated for her [from the time she is seated on the birth-stool and the blood begins to flow until all three days after she gives birth, whether or not she says "I need." From three to seven days, if she says: "I need," the Sabbath is desecrated; if not, it is not desecrated. From seven to thirty days, even if she says "I need," it is not desecrated; but her needs are satisfied through a gentile, for she is regarded as a sick person who is not in danger, whose needs may be satisfied by a gentile.] And the umbilical cord may be tied. [For if it is not tied, but only folded, its intestines will emerge. But it is not cut on Shabbath according to the first tanna.] R. Yossi says: It is also cut. [The halachah is in accordance with R. Yossi, that it is cut and cleaned, and myrtle-powdered, and the like.] And all the needs of milah (circumcision) may be satisfied on Shabbath. [In the next chapter it is explained what the needs of milah are.]

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