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  • Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.   (source)
    midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • There's no midwifery there, whichever place she's gone to; so I suppose she's out of employment, anyway.   (source)
    midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth by people who are not medical doctors
  • My father didn't have any money for the hospital or for a midwife, so a neighbor helped at my birth.†   (source)
  • Just Sanaubar lying on a stained, naked mattress with Ali and a midwife helping her.†   (source)
  • Before her marriage, my mother, Nazireh, had dreamed of becoming a midwife.†   (source)
  • The midwife said she had never seen such passion.†   (source)
  • Midwives also were killed for their heretical practice of using medical knowledge to ease the pain of childbirth—a suffering, the Church claimed, that was God's rightful punishment for Eve's partaking of the Apple of Knowledge, thus giving birth to the idea of Original Sin.†   (source)
  • One of the village women was in the first stage of labor, and Elena Morales, the local midwife, was attending her.†   (source)
  • When the midwife carried me out, my sisters tell me, I had a ruby-red choker of bruise around my throat and sapphire fingerprints on my collarbone.†   (source)
  • "For a hundred generations he slept, curled like a fetus in the earth's mysterious womb, digested by roots, fermenting in the dark, summer fruits canned and forgotten in the larder until a farmer's spade bore him out, rough midwife to a strange harvest."†   (source)
  • Her mother, an anthropologist, is doing fieldwork on midwives in Thailand.†   (source)
  • Old Mary had been the midwife of the plantation before her age caught up with her.†   (source)
  • I kept water boiling for the midwife and stuck cloth in my ears to keep out the noise.†   (source)
  • A midwife named Fannie delivered her into a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot, where hundreds of freight cars came and went each day.†   (source)
  • There is Nurse O'Halloran, the midwife, all dressed up in her finery.†   (source)
  • The last-Everest-proved elusive, however, and in March 1994 Pittman lost the race to a forty-seven-year-old Alaskan mountaineer and midwife named Dolly Lefever.†   (source)
  • HELEN MCBRIDE-RICHTER, R.N., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; G.O.N.P., Emory University School of Medicine, Graduate Student in Nurse Midwifery, Emory University School of Nursing.†   (source)
  • One of the other passengers was a midwife and another a medical student, and together they managed things.†   (source)
  • The Chinese poet George Wu, who died in the Last Sino-Japanese War about three centuries before the Hegira, understood this when he recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality.†   (source)
  • Midwife come, preacher come, a bunch of the good ladies from the church.†   (source)
  • My sister, Artemis, had experience with midwifery, but I had always found it one area of the healing arts best left to others.†   (source)
  • Her labor had been long and hard, but no longer and no harder than that of many other young ladies she had seen, the midwife declared.†   (source)
  • His great-grandmother's sister was just a midwife in Trivandrum.†   (source)
  • She'd had a child previously, you know — which died, I presume of midwives' mercy — and at the autopsy it was found she was pregnant.†   (source)
  • She had felt him leave her body with a sensation of relief at freeing herself from something that did not belong to her, and she had been horrified at herself when she confirmed that she did not feel the slightest affection for that calf from her womb the midwife showed her in the raw, smeared with grease and blood and with the umbilical cord rolled around his neck.†   (source)
  • The nurse-midwife led us into the sonogram room and had Jenny lie back on a table with a monitor screen beside it.†   (source)
  • Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife.†   (source)
  • She was a competent midwife and decisive diagnostician.†   (source)
  • Thank goodness, the midwife checked Mama at the last minute and lowered my arms the way you fold in a captive bird's wings so it doesn't hurt itself trying to fly.†   (source)
  • A lady on the next ranch over used to be a midwife.†   (source)
  • Where before did you ever see such beauty?" and the midwife said, "Don't you understand why she was given such beauty?†   (source)
  • No. I want Gertrude as my midwife.†   (source)
  • I found a Tribal midwife.†   (source)
  • The first nun to break with Ebola was a midwife who had delivered a stillborn child.†   (source)
  • Heerlen had a training hospital for midwives called the Kweekschool voor Vroedvrouwen, a single unit of which — the so-called Swedish barrack — was used in the 1950s as a special ward for underweight or premature infants.†   (source)
  • She had a half-dozen surrogate midwives hovering over her at any given moment, checking to see what she needed, coaching her on how to get more comfortable, relating stories of their own labors, and reporting on her progress to an anxious audience of prisoners.†   (source)
  • She spent seven years there, studying nursing, midwifery, and hospital management.†   (source)
  • Their babies are delivered at home by a local midwife.†   (source)
  • Mortenson nodded at the midwife sitting on the end of her bed.†   (source)
  • Eighty years ago, John Dewey said, "Democracy needs to be reborn in every generation and education is its midwife."†   (source)
  • The Stranks were living in unimaginable luxury now: When Mary came along a little later that year, she was delivered by an actual midwife.†   (source)
  • When he found out she was pregnant, he called a midwife.†   (source)
  • This was why she had not been surprised when the midwife screamed as the child emerged.†   (source)
  • As soon as my baby was born and the midwife put him in my arms, I was so blissful that I forgot the pain of childbirth and so relieved that I didn't worry about all the bad things that could still happen to him.†   (source)
  • From the opening concept of looking for a shared American narrative in the biography of a young black male, to fits and starts in the writing, to a breakthrough moment in narrative style that he midwifed a year ago, to helping guide home the finished manuscript, John was my partner, always at my side, a dream editor.†   (source)
  • I had a retired army nurse doing dressings, and I found a midwife to move there.†   (source)
  • They were born at home, with midwives and such, and nobody bothered with record keeping.†   (source)
  • You see, Aunt Cloe is a midwife, and even weak as I am from this news I knows I don't want her foolin' with my womenfolks.†   (source)
  • I started to tell Mrs. Mompellion that I could not go with her, that I knew nothing of midwifery, but she cut me off.†   (source)
  • He died raving, and Lord Quellon's third wife followed soon thereafter, as the midwife drew a stillborn daughter from her womb.†   (source)
  • Was a breech baby, and the midwife broke her foot when she was birthed and it never came back right.†   (source)
  • He had to go get the midwife.†   (source)
  • Socrates, the son of a sculptor (or stonecutter) and a midwife, was a young boy when the rise to power of Pericles brought on the dawning of the "Golden Age of Greece."†   (source)
  • No midwife up here ever charge a dime.†   (source)
  • Wyoh surprised our women by being expert in midwifery—and surprised them again that she knew nothing about baby care.†   (source)
  • And when she's lying there screaming, you know you've got a midwife there who knows how to cast a sleep on her, or do a pain-away, and when the baby's slow to come you've got a torch telling where it lays.†   (source)
  • M.C. was delivered by a midwife in a log home in the cold winter of 1912.†   (source)
  • My mother was midwife to whatever spewed forth, not being able to choose as with the old and sick.†   (source)
  • Birth records, signed by the attending physician or midwife, or by the mother and any witnesses if medical attention is unavailable, will be deposited in the same manner.†   (source)
  • That duty is hard to define: perhaps you can best think of us as midwives attending a difficult birth.†   (source)
  • I the midwife over here.†   (source)
  • Inside the ward two women in white uniforms stood with their backs to the door; they were the midwife and the nurse.†   (source)
  • Kunthi's husband went off to fetch the midwife, leaving me with the sweating girl.†   (source)
  • I'm getting to be a good midwife.   (source)
    midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • Nothing but midwifery cases.   (source)
    midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
  • And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.†   (source)
  • Don't all the midwives have cauls, missus.†   (source)
  • Midwives had tricks to help the child move, but I did not know them.†   (source)
  • For the sugar-dusted twin midwives of her dream.†   (source)
  • I had Grand Maester Pycelle and an army of midwives, and I had my brother.†   (source)
  • Village midwives were taught to count off on one hand the Five Failings.†   (source)
  • Isinghoff, I think I can speak for the whole of the midwifery team when I say that Lacy is-'†   (source)
  • They know a little herb-craft and some midwifery, but else-wise …†   (source)
  • Midwifing is altogether another gate's business.†   (source)
  • She and bandits were the only human beings out, no palanquins available for midwives.†   (source)
  • The students at the To Keung School of Midwifery were new women, scientists who changed the rituals.†   (source)
  • But they didn't anymore because his father had opened a large clinic, run by two doctors and three midwives whose salaries he paid for out of his own pocket.†   (source)
  • My mother planned to obtain her diploma, then go to Tabriz to learn midwifery from a teacher whom my grandfather knew.†   (source)
  • When she learned of Ashima's pregnancy she approved of Ashima's decision to breast-feed but had been disappointed to learn that Ashima was going to put herself in the hands of the medical establishment for her child's delivery; Judy's daughters were born at home, with the help of midwives at the collective.†   (source)
  • The twin midwives of Ammu's dream.†   (source)
  • When her baby was born, a girl, the two midwives in attendance were so preoccupied with what was going on between her legs they never even noticed her smooth balloon of a stomach.†   (source)
  • He was already learning midwifery, and I think my mother understood that he would have been disappointed not to deliver our child himself.†   (source)
  • "You can train midwives or senior nurses to do C-sections, and they will save lives," notes Ruth Kennedy.†   (source)
  • After four years of successful deliveries, the reputation of the Farm's midwives spread far and wide.†   (source)
  • I transferred to the University of Kentucky and into the nursing school, which had a good course in midwifery.†   (source)
  • A week later, I midwifed Lottie Mowbray, a poor and simple woman who yet managed to deliver her baby with the least complaint or difficulty I had yet encountered.†   (source)
  • That's what I love about midwifery.†   (source)
  • The midwives taught pregnant women to relax, laugh, sing or neck with their husbands while the babies were born.†   (source)
  • So Allan worked with the ministry of health on a revolutionary scheme: allowing trained auxiliary midwives to prescribe the Pill.†   (source)
  • Normally, Lacy would have told her secretary to have the patient see one of the other midwives in the practice.†   (source)
  • This was the boy I had midwifed just after Shrovetide and 1 had wondered, even then, how someone like Lottie, who was herself in many ways a child, would manage to care for him.†   (source)
  • Stephen teaches that physical birth is a sacrament; many of the women are experienced midwives, and the Farm became so serious about childbirth that it put an ad in the New York Times: "Hey LADIES ….†   (source)
  • The midwives, who have undergone eighteen months of training, provide prenatal care and refer risky cases to doctors.†   (source)
  • She took the stairs up to the midwifery office and glanced at the collection of women, sitting with their arms balanced on bellies of all sizes, like moons in different stages.†   (source)
  • It's difficult to appreciate today how unusual this approach was, for physicians closely guarded their prerogatives, and it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with medical responsibilities.†   (source)
  • Whatever low opinion she had of my skills, she obviously wanted to calm her mother's terrors, for she spoke in a soothing voice of how she had heard high praise of my midwifery and how all would now be well.†   (source)
  • Sri Lanka also established a major network of trained midwives, spread across the country and each serving a population of three thousand to five thousand.†   (source)
  • There was a spider plant in Lacy's midwifery office that had been dying by degrees, until the secretary moved a stack of books that had been blocking a window.†   (source)
  • Although she was another midwife's patient, the policy of the group was to have each woman see all of the midwives, since you never knew who'd be on call when you delivered.†   (source)
  • Soon the program was rolled out to three thousand sites around the country, and eventually the auxiliary midwives were authorized to insert IUDs as well.†   (source)
  • By now the other nurses and midwives were staring; Lacy knew that they would rally to her defense-tell Janet Isinghoff to find herself another practice, explain that Lacy was one of the best and most seasoned midwives in New Hampshire.†   (source)
  • Those training programs for birth attendants probably helped save newborn babies--by teaching midwives to use sterile razor blades to cut the cord--but they didn't much help maternal survival.†   (source)
  • In Sri Lanka, training midwives worked because they were part of a complete health care package and could refer patients to hospitals, but in most of the world training birth attendants was only a cheap substitute for a comprehensive program.†   (source)
  • In puzzling over that challenge, Allan Rosenfield kept thinking back to his experience as a young doctor in Thailand, when he trained midwives to offer services that normally were the preserve only of physicians.†   (source)
  • One of her hospital's major roles is training a constant stream of midwives, nurses, and anesthetists, and she is constantly grilling the trainees in English, because she wants them all to speak English fluently.†   (source)
  • The idea was to create programs like China's old "barefoot doctors" or Sri Lanka's network of midwives, because this would be much more cost-effective than training doctors (who in any case would probably serve only city-dwellers).†   (source)
  • Yes, wc are the midwives.†   (source)
  • The largest says that in the twenty-third year of the National Republic, the To Keung School of Midwifery, where she has had two years of instruction and Hospital Practice, awards its Diploma to my mother, who has shown through oral and written examination her Proficiency in Midwifery, Pediatrics, Gynecology, "Medecine," "Surgary," Therapeutics, Ophthalmology, Bacteriology, Dermatology, Nursing, and Bandage.†   (source)
  • The hippie midwife led Mom inside and Dad asked me if I wanted to come, too.†   (source)
  • Laila saw Wajma, the elderly midwife who had delivered her.†   (source)
  • She delivered herself, the angel, the midwife would say later.†   (source)
  • The midwife held the cord taut and told me where to cut.†   (source)
  • The midwife poked her head out the door.†   (source)
  • He held my gaze as the midwife suctioned out his nose.†   (source)
  • When she was done, she pushed her plate away and announced she was ready to go to the midwife.†   (source)
  • I just automatically went to stand next to the midwife.†   (source)
  • After the midwife left, Mortenson lay in bed, cocooning with his wife and daughter.†   (source)
  • She shouted something, and the midwife reached in her hand and took the baby's head, pulled it out.†   (source)
  • The Midwife will linger here three days.†   (source)
  • My mother is the best midwife in Westeros, and my father can cure warts.†   (source)
  • He could see the harbor too, and had watched Merry Midwife make her way down the firth.†   (source)
  • She worked for the Butlers— rich white folks, you know—but she was a good midwife in those days.†   (source)
  • How the midwife smacked and prayed and cajoled the tiny chest to move.†   (source)
  • The Merry Midwife was known in White Harbor too.†   (source)
  • I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.†   (source)
  • Davos would not be able to return to the Merry Midwife till dawn.†   (source)
  • Five weeks later, Lacy was no longer just Alex's midwife.†   (source)
  • She thought of Janet Isinghoff, the woman who had not wanted her as a midwife.†   (source)
  • Not for the mother, but for the midwife.†   (source)
  • "This is our culture!" a Sudanese midwife declared angrily when we asked about cutting.†   (source)
  • " Mahabouba couldn't afford a midwife, so she tried to have the baby by herself.†   (source)
  • When Catherine was ten days old, a midwife came for a routine visit to check on the baby.†   (source)
  • Even in such an elite family, Edna's newborn brother died when the midwife dropped him on his head.†   (source)
  • The midwife was putting a ligature on the navel before cutting the cord.†   (source)
  • Masooma was already out, wriggling quietly in the midwife's arms, when their mother cried out and the crown of another head parted her a second time.†   (source)
  • At her bedside, the elderly midwife, Wajma, watched as Fariba's husband and sons passed around the infant.†   (source)
  • It was only after midnight, an hour after Geoffrey had ridden into the gathering storm to try and fetch the doctor, that the midwife had grown alarmed.†   (source)
  • In this situation, the doctor simply fulfills the function of a Socratic 'midwife,' assisting during the interpretation.†   (source)
  • It was nearly midnight; power had been lost in the storm, and the midwife Elena Morales was working by flashlight when she heard a squeaking, chirping sound.†   (source)
  • We would be assigned to a nurse-midwife who could answer all our questions, measure Jenny's stomach, listen for the baby's heartbeat, and, of course, show us its tiny form inside of her.†   (source)
  • As confided to a neighbor's servant by the garrulous midwife, who had then in turn told anyone who would listen, Sanaubar had taken one glance at the baby in Ali's arms, seen the cleft lip, and barked a bitter laughter.†   (source)
  • A twelve-year-old cousin and midwife named Munchie delivered him, blue as a stormy sky and not breathing.†   (source)
  • Mammy was nearby, in her brilliant summer dress, peeling boiled eggs with Wajma, the midwife, and Tariq's mother.†   (source)
  • The nurse-midwife, a gentle middle-aged woman with a British accent, led us into a small exam room and immediately asked: "Would you like to hear your baby's heartbeat?"†   (source)
  • What's a midwife without a caul?†   (source)
  • She came into the world so fast, Day hadn't even gotten back with the midwife when Elsie shot right out and hit her head on the floor.†   (source)
  • She said that Jalil hadn't bothered to summon a doctor, or even a midwife, even though he knew that the jinn might enter her body and cause her to have one of her fits in the act of delivering.†   (source)
  • The midwife had to free her from the cord that had wrapped itself around Parwana's neck, as if in a murderous fit of separation anxiety.†   (source)
  • Dad had started unwrapping his meal when Mom let out a growl and then started screaming at the midwife that she was ready to push.†   (source)
  • The midwife put Teddy on Mom's belly.†   (source)
  • "Would you like to watch?" the midwife asked Dad, but he just swayed and turned a pale shade of green.†   (source)
  • Very soothing," the midwife said.†   (source)
  • The Merry Midwife stole into White Harbor on the evening tide, her patched sail rippling with every gust of wind.†   (source)
  • After cutting the umbilical cord, the midwife began to use a cloth to take off the blue grease that covered his body as Aureliano held up a lamp.†   (source)
  • Sukeena acted as midwife, sat by my side through the long night of "warnings" as she called the early cramping, the early morning hours of severe pain, and it was into her sure hands that I pushed for the last time and felt that relief that is only a childbearing woman's.†   (source)
  • Those too young to fight would carry water and tend the fires, the Mole's Town midwife would assist Clydas and Maester Aemon with any wounded, and Three-Finger Hobb suddenly had more spit boys, kettle stirrers, and onion choppers than he knew what to do with.†   (source)
  • The midwife was a sweet woman, known throughout the village for her love of babies, and she said, "Look—trouble—" and the father said, "What trouble?†   (source)
  • Before the doctor and midwife could arrive, she hid Nivea's head beneath the bed, to avoid having to invent awkward explanations.†   (source)
  • "I need to find the midwife," Val said.†   (source)
  • The idea that the midwife had returned for the child during the night gave him a pause of rest in which to think.†   (source)
  • She come quick, no time for midwife.†   (source)
  • Midwife got there?†   (source)
  • Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula were not aware of the family precedent, nor did they remember Ursula's frightening admonitions, and the midwife pacified them with the idea that the tail could be cut off when the child got his second teeth.†   (source)
  • Their new midwife, Vicky Cain, had suggested that Tara try an underwater birth for their second child.†   (source)
  • Ferula fluttered about with all the necessary preparations while a servant went to fetch Dr. Cuevas and the midwife.†   (source)
  • …are anguish bringers, and my advice would be, since you're both still young, to have another child, a different child, and be rid of this one now, but, of course, the final decision is up to you" and the father said to the mother, "Well?" and the mother said, "Since the midwife is the kindest person in the village, she must know a monster when she sees one; let's get to it," so Buttercup's father and Buttercup's mother put their hands to the baby's throat and the baby began to gasp.†   (source)
  • "You're the midwife.†   (source)
  • Their bathtub was too small so the midwife brought them a huge light-blue plastic horse trough she used, wedged it between their sink and kitchen table, and filled it with warm water.†   (source)
  • She took the frightened Aureliano by the hand and begged him not to worry, because people like her were not made to die against their will, and she exploded with laughter at the ferocious remedies of the midwife.†   (source)
  • At birth Rosa was white and smooth, without a wrinkle, like a porcelain doll, with green hair and yellow eyes—the most beautiful creature to be born on earth since the days of original sin, as the midwife put it, making the sign of the cross.†   (source)
  • She felt sick with weariness, of course, but such was her fear of what she might dream that she preferred any waking discomfort to whatever sleep might have to offer, and at dawn her mother was pregnant—no, more than pregnant; her mother was having a baby—and as Buttercup stood there in the corner of the room, she watched herself being born and her father gasped at her beauty and so did her mother and the midwife was the first to show concern.†   (source)
  • Macon knew otherwise, because he was there and had seen the eyes of the midwife as his mother's legs collapsed.†   (source)
  • It's because she has no heart, here, listen; the baby is alive but there is no beat" and she held Buttercup's chest against the father's ear and the father could only nod and say, "We must find a miracle man to place a heart inside" but the midwife said, "That would be wrong, I think; I've heard before of creatures like this, the heartless ones, and as they grow bigger they get more and more beautiful and behind them is nothing but broken bodies and shattered souls, and these without…†   (source)
  • Over the winter, between trips to the midwife with Tara, and days of wallpapering and outfitting the upstairs bedroom where their child's life would be launched, he read every book he could find on Central Asia.†   (source)
  • I would become a nurse-midwife, spend a few years in the mountains where doctors were scarce, and then use my experience to persuade the government to send me to medical school on a public health scholarship.†   (source)
  • Mothers gave birth with help from their neighbors, prayers, and a midwife who almost never arrived on time, because she had to make the trip by burro, but she was as good at delivering babies as she was at pulling calves from wall-eyed cows.†   (source)
  • In some ways, this suggestion landed on my ears even more unwelcome than her earlier proposal, that I midwife Mary Daniel.†   (source)
  • I told him a midwife delivered me, and if a midwife was good enough for my mother, a midwife was good enough for his daughter.†   (source)
  • The Merry Midwife tied up to the end of a weathered wooden pier in the outer harbor, well away from Lionstar.†   (source)
  • That jetty wall conceals the inner harbor, he realized, as the Merry Midwife was pulling down her sail.†   (source)
  • How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife.†   (source)
  • It was the seagoing vessels that interested him most, however; a pair of carracks as drab and tattered as the Merry Midwife, the trading galley Storm Dancer, the cogs Brave Magister and Horn of Plenty, a galleas from Braavos marked by her purple hull and sails ….†   (source)
  • From time to time, over the course of her career as a midwife, Lacy had run into a former patient at the grocery store or the bank or on a bike trail.†   (source)
  • Although she was another midwife's patient, the policy of the group was to have each woman see all of the midwives, since you never knew who'd be on call when you delivered.†   (source)
  • There was plenty of work left for a midwife to do even after the moment of birth, but for right now, she wanted to make eye contact with this little being.†   (source)
  • Although she had no doubts about her prowess as a midwife, the nature of her work meant that toilets didn't get cleaned on a regular basis; that dust bunnies bloomed beneath the furniture.†   (source)
  • She switched into a program that would certify her as a nurse-midwife, that encouraged her to tap into the emotional health of a mother-to-be instead of just her symptomology.†   (source)
  • After sixteen hours of labor, they were all exhausted-Lacy, the patient, and the father-to-be, who was facing zero-hour with the dawning realization that he was superfluous, that right now, his wife wanted her midwife much more than she wanted him.†   (source)
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