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- Mahabouba couldn't afford a midwife, so she tried to have the baby by herself.†
Chpt 6
- "The fistula patient is the modern-day leper," notes Ruth Kennedy, a British nurse-midwife who worked with Catherine at the fistula hospital.†
Chpt 6
- Ruth Kennedy, the hospital's nurse-midwife, translated as Simeesh told us how she had enjoyed an eighth-grade education—very impressive for rural Ethiopia.†
Chpt 6
- So Allan worked with the ministry of health on a revolutionary scheme: allowing trained auxiliary midwives to prescribe the Pill.†
Chpt 6midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- First, he developed a checklist of questions, so that a midwife could talk to a woman and either give her a prescription for the Pill or, if there were risk factors, refer her to a doctor.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 6midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- Humans are the only mammals that need assistance in birth, and some evolutionary psychologists and evolutionary biologists have argued that as a result perhaps the first "profession" to emerge in prehistoric days was that of the midwife.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- The midwives, who have undergone eighteen months of training, provide prenatal care and refer risky cases to doctors.†
Chpt 7
- 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).†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- "You can train midwives or senior nurses to do C-sections, and they will save lives," notes Ruth Kennedy.†
Chpt 7
- Even in such an elite family, Edna's newborn brother died when the midwife dropped him on his head.†
Chpt 7
- She spent seven years there, studying nursing, midwifery, and hospital management.†
Chpt 7 *midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth without being a doctor
- Edna became her country's first qualified nurse-midwife, the first Somali woman to drive, and then Somalia's first lady, period.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 7midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- When Catherine was ten days old, a midwife came for a routine visit to check on the baby.†
Chpt 10
- This is called infibulation, and when the woman is married, her husband or a midwife uses a knife to reopen the sealed part so that she can have intercourse.†
Chpt 13
- Edna Adan, the midwife in Somaliland who runs her own maternity hospital, has been surveying all the women who have come to deliver over the years: 97 percent of them were cut, and virtually all of them infibulated.†
Chpt 13
- "This is our culture!" a Sudanese midwife declared angrily when we asked about cutting.†
Chpt 13
- The midwife said that she regularly cut girls at the request of their mothers, and that the girls themselves later thanked her.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(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)