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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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"Recently, the pollution in Dili has been very severe," 30-year-old midwife Sonya da Costa Soares told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even in the midst of her poor care at the time of her daughter's death, Katie, 41, vividly remembers one midwife who showed some compassion.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Victim-survivors of FGM can also experience difficulty with urinating and menstruating, the midwife said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Beetle tried to think what the midwife had said at moments like this.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

"We've got bereavement midwives working across Wales but often there is only one per health board," said Julie Richards, director of the Royal College of Midwives Cymru.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

During her pregnancy her mother told midwives that she had tokophobia, a fear of natural birth and wanted a caesarean section.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They said doctors, nurses or midwives repeatedly ignored their concerns about the progress of their labour or the health of their baby.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

She checked in on the pregnant women and gave advice to the midwives and healers and apothecaries.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

"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

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

And when four black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University occupied the orange and green stools at Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter in 1960, Greensboro midwifed a sit-in movement that spread through the South.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2015

Unable to reach his sons, Dad called Rob and Diane Hardy, because Mother had midwifed five of their 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

In this new place, she's midwifing a future.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2021

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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