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midwife
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)

Chapter 2 — The Midwife
p. 13.1

midwife = a non-doctor who practices the profession of assisting women in childbirth
"DO YOU HAVE CALENDULA?" THE MIDWIFE SAID.
p. 13.1

midwife = 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. 15.4

midwifery = 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. 15.7

midwife = 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. 16.6

midwifery = 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. 16.6

midwife = 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. 16.7

midwives = 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. 16.8

midwife = 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. 17.6

midwifing = 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. 17.8

midwifing = assisting women in childbirth
Mother also used the money to improve herself as a midwife.
p. 18.2

midwife = 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. 29.3

midwife = assist in the childbirth of
When Dad was twenty-seven, Luke was born, at home, delivered by a midwife.
p. 29.5

midwife = 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. 57.5

midwife = assist women in childbirth
In the end it wasn't Dad who convinced Mother to midwife again.
p. 57.6

midwife = practice the profession of assisting women in childbirth
That winter, she midwifed two babies that I remember.
p. 57.7

midwifed = 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. 57.9

midwife = 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. 85.7

midwife = 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. 95.1

midwifed = 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. 123.5

midwifery = 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. 123.6

midwife = 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. 145.1

midwifed = assisted women in childbirth (of)
Mother, who was the midwife, had given her Saint-John's-wort and other remedies.
p. 230.6

midwife = 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

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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)

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