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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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Both times, she said the care she received in hospital and from her community midwife was good.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He explained he and his wife had been assigned a bereavement midwife named Lauren, who had experienced a similar tragedy and retrained in order to help other families.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Woodley’s work was informed by a cousin who’s a midwife, friends who are parents and a few births she’s attended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

One midwife, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the increased costs had led many to consider their positions.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Next to her sat her mother, the midwife.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The Lib Dems are calling for a consultant obstetrician to be present on every labour ward at all hours, one-to-one midwifery care for every woman in labour, and recruit an extra 300 consultant midwives.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Two of the midwives went on to become Penny's godmothers.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

They have become friends with nurses and midwives at the special care baby unit who looked after Penny as well as them, after the loss of Bella.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

We're talking the likes of nurses, midwives, paramedics, teachers, and engineers.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Human midwives to deliver babies from human consorts.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

He midwifed the country’s first farm labor bill, and was decades ahead of his time on renewable energy and climate change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Nonetheless, it was born in the shadows, midwifed by people who feared for their social position and economic well-being.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2020

And he midwifed the most important alliance in American history.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2017

Mother had midwifed four of his eight children.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“There is lots to be proud of, including midwifing ten new plays by women playwrights from Los Angeles, into the American theatre through our Writers Workshop,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

He's no hero – that makes Brodie-Sangster so watchable – but he is a Machiavellian force who ends up midwifing several rock luminaries to stardom whether directly or, in Hynde's case, as an oppositional springboard.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2022

And James will ironically be in the position of midwifing the next phase of America’s gun movement.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2020

Mrs. Maas, perhaps best known for midwifing the “I Love New York” campaign in the 1970s, died Nov. 16 at 86.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2018

In a place with deep and binding tethers to the past, Katherine Johnson, a black woman, was midwifing the future.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Langhorne was midwived in a Bethesda hospital, the middle of three sons to a father who ran a concrete company.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2015

I pretend neither to the spirit of prophecy, nor to any uncommon skill in predicting a crisis; much less to tell when it begins to be nascent, or is fairly midwived into the world.

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath



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