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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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Molly went to the cinema with her parents and Alfie on 28 August, the day after her due date, having attended a midwife appointment for a sweep earlier that afternoon.

From BBC Sep. 16, 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

The midwife raised the alarm and emergency teams began CPR immediately.

From BBC Aug. 31, 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

I remembered her as a young midwife, so cautious, so meek about the lives over which she had such power.

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

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

"On the other, we are seeing newly qualified midwives facing uncertainty about their future employment. That simply does not add up."

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

This included the esteem accorded to women who held life-giving roles as healers and midwives.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

"It's not going to stop with Black studies, it will continue to all the other subjects and knowledges that are midwifed and have been midwifed by Black studies."

From Salon Mar. 31, 2023

Spun off from Jemisin’s 2016 short story “The City Born Great,” the novel figures cities as living, sentient organisms that are “born” into human avatars, midwifed by the previous city to be delivered into sentience.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 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

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

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

From Nature Oct. 9, 2018

Mother charged about five hundred dollars for a delivery, and this was another way midwifing changed her: suddenly she had money.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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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