midwife
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"You picked a bad day to have a baby," she remembers a midwife told her.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
A third family, who made their decision after reading about vitamin K on social media and talking with their midwife, dismissed the vitamin K shot altogether.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
During the consultation, Scott-Wright told our reporter she had been a midwife but no longer had a licence to practise, adding "there is no qualification that anyone could have for what I do".
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Her mother was a nurse and midwife, and her father worked as a personnel manager at the mill.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
The midwife chased Joan’s husband, her young son, two pigs, and a pigeon out of the cottage, bade Alyce wait for her in the yard, and slammed the cottage door.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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