All 5 Uses

midwife
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War and Peace
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Mary Bogdanovna was a midwife from the neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.†
Chpt 4
The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump white hands with an air of calm importance.†
Chpt 4 *
"Mary Bogdanovna, I think it's beginning!" said Princess Mary looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm.†
Chpt 4
Nurse Savishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary in Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a midwife.†
Chpt 4
A trained midwife was engaged for Bogucharovo at his expense, and a priest was paid to teach reading and writing to the children of the peasants and household serfs.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (midwife)
a trained (usually non-doctor) professional who assists women in childbirth; or more broadly, a person who helps bring something new into existence or helps guide it into being
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)