Midwife
noun
A person, typically a woman, who is trained to help women during childbirth.
She was relieved to see the experienced midwife come into the room.
Often appears as...
- certified midwife
- birth midwife
noun
A person who helps to bring something into existence or helps in the development of something.
His tough coaching style made him the midwife of the team's success.
Often appears as...
- midwife of success
- midwife of evolution
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Formal, Approving
Academic
noun
A person, typically a woman, who is trained to help women during childbirth.
She was relieved to see the experienced midwife come into the room.
Often appears as...
- certified midwife
- birth midwife
noun
A person who helps to bring something into existence or helps in the development of something.
His tough coaching style made him the midwife of the team's success.
Often appears as...
- midwife of success
- midwife of evolution
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-specific
While traditionally female, men can also be midwives.
He became the first male midwife at the hospital.
Pro Tip 2/3Professionally trained
Midwives undergo rigorous training to support births professionally.
After years of study, she received her certified midwife license.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond delivery
Midwives provide care before, during, and after childbirth.
The midwife offered valuable prenatal advice at the clinic.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-specific
While traditionally female, men can also be midwives.
He became the first male midwife at the hospital.
Pro Tip 2/3Professionally trained
Midwives undergo rigorous training to support births professionally.
After years of study, she received her certified midwife license.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond delivery
Midwives provide care before, during, and after childbirth.
The midwife offered valuable prenatal advice at the clinic.
Pro Tip 1/3Gender-specific
While traditionally female, men can also be midwives.
He became the first male midwife at the hospital.
Pro Tip 2/3Professionally trained
Midwives undergo rigorous training to support births professionally.
After years of study, she received her certified midwife license.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond delivery
Midwives provide care before, during, and after childbirth.
The midwife offered valuable prenatal advice at the clinic.
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Onora O'Neill: What we...
systems of accountability for all sorts of institutions and professionals and officials and so on that will make it easier for us to judge their trustworthiness. A lot of these systems have the converse effect. They don't work as they're supposed to. I remember I was talking with a midwife who said,
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How Mr. Condom made...
said let's do it the women said we agree we'll use pills but we need a doctors to prescribe the pills and we had very very few doctors so we didn't take no as an answer we took no as a question so we went to the nurses and the midwives who were also women and did a fantastic job
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Why civilians suffer...
who did many things in terms of creating institutions, but was the midwife of our constitution. And I would say to you that these are folks who, when our country was threatened, or our world was threatened, they didn't retreat. They didn't talk about building walls.
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A simple birth kit for...
I landed in a thatched hut with a midwife. As a mother, I was very curious on how she delivered babies in her house. After a deep and engaging conversation with her on how she considered it a profound calling to do what she was doing, I asked her a parting
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Caring for maternal...
prenatal checkups would be at every stage of the pregnancy I saw my midwives regularly up to the delivery and met the backroom physician on my tour of the hospital birthing center I had a support system in place I was lucky I knew how I
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Say your truths and seek...
But those aren't the things that stuck with me or guided me when I stopped being a midwife and started other jobs. What stuck with me was this bedrock belief that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth.
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3 lessons of revolutionar...
my husband was pressing down on my sacrum to keep my body from breaking. My father was waiting behind the hospital curtain more like hiding. But my mother was at my side. The midwife said she could see the baby's head,
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Mother Turtle Makes a...
But this she doesn't need-- the attentions of the worst midwife in the world. The crow's anxious to speed the process along. The turtle knows what the crow's after, and she has a decision to make.
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Gail Reed: Where to...
also comes with a team approach, as much how to work in teams as how to lead them, with a dose of humility. Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives,
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this during the night a male iberian midwife toad has kept a chain of eggs moist in the pool wrapped around his
Video examples
Onora O'Neill: What we...
systems of accountability for all sorts of institutions and professionals and officials and so on that will make it easier for us to judge their trustworthiness. A lot of these systems have the converse effect. They don't work as they're supposed to. I remember I was talking with a midwife who said,
Video examples
How Mr. Condom made...
said let's do it the women said we agree we'll use pills but we need a doctors to prescribe the pills and we had very very few doctors so we didn't take no as an answer we took no as a question so we went to the nurses and the midwives who were also women and did a fantastic job
Video examples
Why civilians suffer...
who did many things in terms of creating institutions, but was the midwife of our constitution. And I would say to you that these are folks who, when our country was threatened, or our world was threatened, they didn't retreat. They didn't talk about building walls.
Video examples
A simple birth kit for...
I landed in a thatched hut with a midwife. As a mother, I was very curious on how she delivered babies in her house. After a deep and engaging conversation with her on how she considered it a profound calling to do what she was doing, I asked her a parting
Video examples
Caring for maternal...
prenatal checkups would be at every stage of the pregnancy I saw my midwives regularly up to the delivery and met the backroom physician on my tour of the hospital birthing center I had a support system in place I was lucky I knew how I
Video examples
Say your truths and seek...
But those aren't the things that stuck with me or guided me when I stopped being a midwife and started other jobs. What stuck with me was this bedrock belief that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth.
Video examples
3 lessons of revolutionar...
my husband was pressing down on my sacrum to keep my body from breaking. My father was waiting behind the hospital curtain more like hiding. But my mother was at my side. The midwife said she could see the baby's head,
Video examples
Mother Turtle Makes a...
But this she doesn't need-- the attentions of the worst midwife in the world. The crow's anxious to speed the process along. The turtle knows what the crow's after, and she has a decision to make.
Video examples
Gail Reed: Where to...
also comes with a team approach, as much how to work in teams as how to lead them, with a dose of humility. Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives,
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
this during the night a male iberian midwife toad has kept a chain of eggs moist in the pool wrapped around his
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Quote examples
Evangeline Lilly
Canadian Actress
After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?
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Ram Dass
American Psychologist
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Emma Willis
English Celebrity
I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?
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Katie Piper
English Writer
I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.
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Zazie Beetz
German Actress
I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.
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David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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Johannes Kepler
German Scientist
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
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Sissy Spacek
American Actress
I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.
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Ina May Gaskin
American Celebrity
We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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Allison Anders
American Director
I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.
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Evangeline Lilly
Canadian Actress
After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?
Quote examples
Ram Dass
American Psychologist
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Quote examples
Emma Willis
English Celebrity
I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?
Quote examples
Katie Piper
English Writer
I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.
Quote examples
Zazie Beetz
German Actress
I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.
Quote examples
David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
Quote examples
Johannes Kepler
German Scientist
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Quote examples
Sissy Spacek
American Actress
I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.
Quote examples
Ina May Gaskin
American Celebrity
We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
Quote examples
Allison Anders
American Director
I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.
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