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Definition

a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth; or to assist in childbirth

or:

someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence

The village has no doctor, but there is a midwife.

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

Reagan slashed welfare spending and midwifed the working poor-friendly Earned Income Tax Credit into being.
Ross Douthat & Reihan Salam -- Grand New Party

midwifed = helped to deliver

She is a licensed midwife.

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

Nothing but midwifery cases.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth by people who are not medical doctors

Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth

Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

midwife = a woman who aids the mother in the delivery of babies

She is the fairies' midwife;
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

The midwife, arriving late, had found the baby's head pulled out of shape, its neck stretched, its body warped; and she had pushed the head back and molded the body with her hands.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

Fatty had the soul of a midwife; he sympathized with women in their gasping agony, sympathized honestly and almost tearfully, and he was magnificent at sitting still and drinking tea and waiting.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

"Sometimes God calls them home, and there's nothing anyone can do. But if it happens to a midwife—" She turned, speaking directly to me. "All it takes is one mistake, and you'll be visiting me in prison."
Tara Westover -- Educated

midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

When I was about ready to graduate, a list of Appalachian communities asking for nurse-midwives was posted on the student bulletin board.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved

midwives = someone skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

"It's time to get the midwife," Sissy said.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

midwife = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

The midwife was telling Mom to push, then hold, then push.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

midwife = someone skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

I tried to get a midwife for her, but the doctor said midwives were dirty.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

midwives = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

a midwife had visited a young woman twice
Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying

midwife = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

When Lacy had been a midwife in training, she'd spent months walking around with a little centimeter ruler, measuring.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

midwife = a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

Erin ended the message by praising my mother's skill as a midwife.
Tara Westover -- Educated

midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

Mother had midwifed the child.
Tara Westover -- Educated

midwifed = assisted women in childbirth (of)

Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot.
Tara Westover -- Educated

midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth

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