All 50 Uses
midwife
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)
- Chapter 2 — The Midwife
p. 13.1midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- "DO YOU HAVE CALENDULA?" THE MIDWIFE SAID.
p. 13.1midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- The midwife intimidated her, and when intimidated my mother took on a weightless quality, whisking about every time the midwife made one of her slow, solid movements.
p. 13.5
- The midwife intimidated her, and when intimidated my mother took on a weightless quality, whisking about every time the midwife made one of her slow, solid movements.
p. 13.6
- The midwife surveyed her list.
p. 13.6
- She was a midwife entirely by the power of her own say-so, which was more than enough.
p. 13.9
- The midwife looked as though she hadn't given a thought to her appearance in a decade, and the way she carried herself made you feel foolish for having noticed.
p. 14.2
- The midwife nodded goodbye, her arms full of Mother's herbs.
p. 14.3
- The next time the midwife came she brought her daughter Maria, who stood next to her mother, imitating her movements, with a baby wedged against her wiry nine-year-old frame.
p. 14.3
- Mother didn't want to be a midwife.
p. 15.4
- Midwifery had been Dad's idea, one of his schemes for self-reliance.
p. 15.4midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Mother was an herbalist so she could tend our health, and if she learned to midwife she would be able to deliver the grandchildren when they came along.
p. 15.6
- The midwife came to visit Mother a few days after the first birth.
p. 15.7midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Because we didn't have a phone, the midwife called Grandma-down-the-hill, who walked up the hill, tired and ornery, and barked that it was time for Mother to go "play doctor."
p. 15.8
- "You need to be a midwife," he said.
p. 16.3
- A thrilling image took shape in my imagination, of me in Maria's role, the midwife's daughter, confident, knowledgeable.
p. 16.5
- Midwifery was not illegal in the state of Idaho, but it had not yet been sanctioned.
p. 16.6midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- If a delivery went wrong, a midwife might face charges for practicing medicine without a license; if things went very wrong, she could face criminal charges for manslaughter, even prison time.
p. 16.6midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Few women would take such a risk, so midwives were scarce: on the day Judy left for Wyoming, Mother became the only midwife for a hundred miles.
p. 16.7midwives = non-doctors who practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Few women would take such a risk, so midwives were scarce: on the day Judy left for Wyoming, Mother became the only midwife for a hundred miles.
p. 16.8midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Then the expression dissolved and she said, in her small voice, "I'm not a midwife, just an assistant."
p. 16.9
- Midwifing changed my mother.
p. 17.6midwifing = practicing the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Mother charged about five hundred dollars for a delivery, and this was another way midwifing changed her: suddenly she had money.
p. 17.8
- Dad didn't believe that women should work, but I suppose he thought it was all right for Mother to be paid for midwifing, because it undermined the Government.
p. 17.8midwifing = assisting women in childbirth
- Mother also used the money to improve herself as a midwife.
p. 18.2midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Of course a midwife needs a phone, he said.
p. 18.6
- Mother's being a midwife would subvert the Medical Establishment, but in order to be a midwife she needed a phone.
p. 19.2
- Mother's being a midwife would subvert the Medical Establishment, but in order to be a midwife she needed a phone.
p. 19.3
- Under no circumstances was I to tell them that my mother was a midwife.
p. 21.4
- "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."
p. 21.9 *
- In the ER, she'd tried to give the doctors the information they needed without seeming too knowledgeable, without making them suspect that she was an unlicensed midwife.
p. 22.6
- The doctor was persuaded that she couldn't possibly be a midwife.
p. 23.2
- "Judy is a fine midwife," I said, my chest rising.
p. 23.9
- When he was twenty-four, Dad asked Mother if they could hire an herbalist to midwife my brother Shawn.
p. 29.3midwife = assist in the childbirth of
- When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife.
p. 29.5midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Mother began to doubt whether she would ever midwife again, and while she was saddened by this, Dad was devastated.
p. 57.5midwife = assist women in childbirth
- In the end it wasn't Dad who convinced Mother to midwife again.
p. 57.6midwife = practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- That winter, she midwifed two babies that I remember.
p. 57.7midwifed = assisted women in childbirth (of)
- She locked herself in a back room and her assistant delivered the baby. After that, Mother was no longer the Midwife.
p. 57.9midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- On the next birth, she used the bulk of her fee to hire a second midwife, to supervise her.
p. 57.9
- I remember Mother telling me I was on dish duty, because she was leaving for Utah after lunch to consult for another midwife on a complicated pregnancy.
p. 68.5
- Of course I'd spent time with people outside my family, but they were like us: women who'd hired Mother to midwife their babies, or who came to her for herbs because they didn't believe in the Medical Establishment.
p. 85.7midwife = assist in the childbirth of
- Unable to reach his sons, Dad called Rob and Diane Hardy, because Mother had midwifed five of their eight children.
p. 95.1midwifed = assisted women in childbirth (of)
- Mother would teach me about herbs, and also about midwifery, which she'd gone back to now the migraines were less frequent.
p. 123.5midwifery = the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- When I had children, Mother would deliver them, and one day, I supposed, I would be the Midwife.
p. 123.6midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- Next to her sat her mother, the midwife.
p. 132.3
- Mother had midwifed four of his eight children.
p. 145.1midwifed = assisted women in childbirth (of)
- Mother, who was the midwife, had given her Saint-John's-wort and other remedies.
p. 230.6midwife = non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
- I remembered her as a young midwife, so cautious, so meek about the lives over which she had such power.
p. 232.4
- Mother's products were being sold by nearly every midwife and natural healer in the Mountain West.
p. 247.5
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)