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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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Anyone who is concerned should contact their midwife first or call the dedicated maternity information line on 028 3756 1325 which will be open between 14:00 BST and 17:00 on Monday to Friday.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Holly Hawkesford is a midwife at Warwick Hospital and her son, Jasper, died seven hours after he was born in 2014.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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

“Two eggs and a laying hen” and “Push, you cow” were the words that occurred to her, but when Beetle spoke them they did not have the same effect as when the midwife did.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

She was immediately referred to the specialist FGM Clinic, run by midwives at Birmingham Women's Hospital.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

His inquiry into Morecambe Bay for instance found midwives were pursuing normal birth "at any cost."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

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

The sense of shared national endeavor that midwifed the Writers Project feels like a relic from another millennium.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2020

Elizabeth’s rule, midwifed by Walsingham, certainly gave birth to much of the spycraft, deception and intrigue that grew to full and horrible flower in the modern postwar period.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

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

However, Campbell is also sharply scrutinized for his role in midwifing and unleashing Dianetics.

From Nature ● Oct. 9, 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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