All 5 Uses of
midwife
in
Jacob Have I Loved
- How the midwife smacked and prayed and cajoled the tiny chest to move.†
Chpt 2
- I transferred to the University of Kentucky and into the nursing school, which had a good course in midwifery.†
Chpt 19midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth without being a doctor
- 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.†
Chpt 19
- When I was about ready to graduate, a list of Appalachian communities asking for nurse-midwives was posted on the student bulletin board.
Chpt 19 *midwives = someone skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
- He was already learning midwifery, and I think my mother understood that he would have been disappointed not to deliver our child himself.†
Chpt 20midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth without being a doctor
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
or:
someone who helps bring something into existence; or the act of helping to bring something into existence