midwife

On a spring afternoon in Wangaratta, nobody seemed to have a bad word to say about the former nurse and midwife turned politician.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Former nurse and midwife Helen Haines entered parliament in 2019, earning respect across the political divide for her efforts to stamp out corruption and bolster transparency.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Haines entered parliament in 2019 after working as a nurse and midwife, becoming known for stances such as supporting stronger climate action.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 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

She was the only midwife in the village.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

“Cárdenas was, in a real sense, one of the midwives of Mexico’s democratic transition,” said Kathleen Bruhn, a political science professor specializing in Mexico at the University of California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The number of midwives employed in the acute maternity units at Daisy Hill and Craigavon has fallen since October 2019.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The trust says the way midwifery care is delivered has changed, with more midwives now working in the community.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The NHS leaders' organisation also said some smaller units struggled to maintain safe staffing numbers for 24-hour care, including midwives and consultants such as obstetricians.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

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

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

From Nature ● Oct. 9, 2018

Along with the classic documentary “Style Wars,” which Chalfant co-produced, “Subway Art” helped disseminate graffiti culture worldwide, midwifing local communities and cementing the style, slang, technique and mores of the New York scene.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

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