midwife

Example Sentences

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Her husband Jonathan believes there is a "cultural" problem within maternity services that midwives believe they know better as they are the professionals.

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The midwife, Gertrude, says I’m small because I had only the milk of a weak goat instead of a strong mother, but I know that really it’s because of my name.

From Literature

There were, though, some concerns expressed about those conventions — and a sense from some that for too long custom had been the midwife of deference and that must change.

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Cleeves said her daughter was a midwife and had compared grief to labour pains.

From BBC

Ferris, who was 33 weeks pregnant with their first child, had been given the all clear for the trip and flight by her midwife and GP.

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