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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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An unnamed Ethiopian assistant professor was selected by ICM for its Midwife Leaders Executive Sponsorship Programme, but was rejected for having an "inadequate financial bank statement and an unreliable purpose of travel", the organisers said.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

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

The Merry Midwife tied up to the end of a weathered wooden pier in the outer harbor, wefl away from Lionstar.

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



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