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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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Both times, she said the care she received in hospital and from her community midwife was good.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

The midwife told Ann: "I'm getting rid of this milk, you won't be needing it."

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

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

“I am no midwife for cows, Will Russet,” she called.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

The campaign, which encourages vaginal birth without any medical intervention and is backed by many midwives, has been found to have contributed to avoidable deaths and harm in other reviews.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

The majority of the 383 who haven't secured jobs are nurses, with 70 midwives and 7 ODPs.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

The report also raised concerns about how patients were allocated to midwives.

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 checked in on the pregnant women and gave advice to the midwives and healers and apothecaries.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

He midwifed the country’s first farm labor bill, and was decades ahead of his time on renewable energy and climate change.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2023

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

That winter, she midwifed two babies that I remember.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“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

In a place with deep and binding tethers to the past, Katherine Johnson, a black woman, was midwifing the future.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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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