midwife
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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
To better understand why some populations recover while others continue to collapse, researchers studied common midwife toads living around four lakes in the Pyrenees of France and Spain that had all experienced severe Bd outbreaks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The midwife “must have seen hundreds of babies,” Gino observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The review - led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden - is due to be published on Wednesday, while a police investigation continues.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
"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
One account described newly qualified midwives being assigned "high-risk cases", while more experienced staff carry out less complex tasks, adding: "This happens all the time."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Many of the delegates are set to march on Saturday in Lisbon for the "One Million More" campaign, drawing attention to a global shortage of midwives.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
She and bandits were the only human beings out, no palanquins available for midwives.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
L.A. didn’t just invent noir; it midwifed speculative fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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
The new country was cheered on in 2011 by the American diplomats who had midwifed its delivery and the Hollywood celebrities who championed its cause.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
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“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
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
Bateson knew that he was witnessing, or, rather, midwifing, the birth of a profound revolution in biology.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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