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 independent maternity review, led by senior midwife Ockenden, concluded there were "potentially avoidable" outcomes for mothers and babies in 520 cases.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The midwife, Gertrude, told me that rhymes are a waste of brain space, but I like the way they sound.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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As part of that, midwives should be dedicated to answering calls and providing timely advice, while women should be offered a face-to-face appointment if they remain concerned.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
A total of 49 members of staff, including doctors and midwives, were interviewed and quoted in the report anonymously.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Two delegates from the Bangladesh Midwifery Society, who convinced their government to hire 5,000 extra midwives, were also rejected.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
No one but the mother and midwives could touch it for several days.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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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
Even so, especially at moments of great change, it needs to be midwifed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 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
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
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
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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