midwife

Liberal Democrats are calling for one-to-one midwife care for women in labour, as figures suggest life-altering childbirth injuries in England have reached record levels.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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

The nearest health centre was a long journey away, so Quiñonez's mother, a midwife, tried to ease the baby's pain with medicinal plants.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The wider review into maternity failings in Nottingham began in September 2022, and was led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

And off the midwife ran, up to the manor where warm fires blazed and the laboring mother was soothed with wine and syrups and kind words.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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

The campaign, which encourages vaginal birth without any medical intervention and is backed by many midwives, has been found to have contributed to avoidable deaths and harm in other reviews.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Edward Errington-Rozkalns, known as Teddy, died in November 2020 after "undoubted failings" led to midwives failing to monitor his blood sugar levels before sending him home.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

A total of 49 members of staff, including doctors and midwives, were interviewed and quoted in the report anonymously.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

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

That winter, she midwifed two babies that I remember.

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

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