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Childbirth assistant
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midwife
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Word definitions for midwife in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies [syn: accoucheuse ] [also: midwives (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midwife \Mid"wife`\, v. i. To perform the office of midwife.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician. 2 (context rare figuratively English) Someone who assists in bringing about some result or project. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To act as a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A midwife is a professional in midwifery . Midwives are specialists in pregnancy , childbirth , postpartum and women's sexual and reproductive health (including annual gynecological exams, family planning , menopausal care and others). They are also educated ...
Usage examples of midwife.
I think the midwife thtole the royal children and put their own brath in the cradle inthtead.
The extension of the Midwives Act to Scotland, establishing recognized training centres for midwifery nursing.
An epidemic of missing foetuses is something that would surely cause a stir among gynaecologists, midwives, obstetrical nurses, especially in an age of heightened feminist awareness.
Grigory rushed to Marfa Ignatievna and sent her to help Lizaveta while he himself ran to bring the midwife, an old tradeswoman who happened to live nearby.
Ruby Archuleta was an uncertified midwife who had been safely delivering babies since 1940.
Mother Mary stood to one side, setting up a shining silver tray for Emmanuel, taking an uncustomary second-in-command position to the resident midwife.
The men had returned with Lucy Bentwood and the midwife around midnight.
The old midwife made signs with her hands, and her husband rose too and sidled towards the door, where his billhook was propped.
An herbwoman and midwife, she was thought by some folk to be a witch, but in truth, she merely loved her solitude.
When the mother feels the fulness of time at hand, the priestess of Lucina, the midwife, is duly summoned, and she comes bearing in her hand a tripod, better known as a three-legged stool, the uses of which are only revealed to the initiated.
August 1942, six months after her arrival in Paotow-Zi, Milla was delivered of a healthy boy by the village midwife.
Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a midwife.
He also quotes the case of a woman who conceived by a mariner, and who, after nine months, was delivered by a midwife of a shapeless mass, followed by an animal with a long neck, blazing eyes, and clawed feet.
Mollie was born in a grand house in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, delivered by the village midwife, so the story goes, with old Tom boiling up kettles of water and only an oil lamp to light the room.
Aquae Sextiae, Caesar made a hurried trip across the Alps bearing dispatches for Rome, and his brief visit resulted in a second pregnancy for Aurelia, who bore a second girl the following February, again in her own home, again attended by no one save the local midwife and Cardixa.