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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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As Alanna Skuse writes in “The Surgeon, the Midwife, and the Quack,” in the Renaissance, “health begins at home.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The “Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2025,” like its many predecessors, is humming with catastrophe, a virtual Santa’s workshop of traumatic events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Midwife Ximena Rojas and her team of two doulas run a birthing center and offer sexual and reproductive care to migrants.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

"Call the Midwife will always be a drama for me about women and the working classes," she tells the BBC.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024

Davos would not be able to return to the Merry Midwife till dawn.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin



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