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
One midwife, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the increased costs had led many to consider their positions.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
Led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, the inquiry found there were "potentially avoidable" outcomes for mothers and babies in 520 cases and "deeply embedded systemic failures" at maternity units in Nottingham.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Yes, yes. She was brave and she is well,” the midwife announces.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
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
The majority of the 383 who haven't secured jobs are nurses, with 70 midwives and 7 ODPs.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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
And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
"It's not going to stop with Black studies, it will continue to all the other subjects and knowledges that are midwifed and have been midwifed by Black studies."
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
Elizabeth’s rule, midwifed by Walsingham, certainly gave birth to much of the spycraft, deception and intrigue that grew to full and horrible flower in the modern postwar period.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Szilard’s views on the program he midwifed had traveled a tortuous path.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
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
However, Campbell is also sharply scrutinized for his role in midwifing and unleashing Dianetics.
From Nature ● Oct. 9, 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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