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midwife

A midwife is a person, usually a woman, who has been trained to help women during childbirth. A century ago, a midwife would bring the baby into the world, because the hospitals were too far away.

midwife

a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies

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Simple sentences

Mary is a midwife.
In the hospital room, the nurse wearing white clothes and the midwife were preparing for the delivery.
She's a midwife.
The tongue is the midwife of all disasters.

Movie subtitles

Midwife!
It is better for the midwife if you lie on your left side.
Because I'm a midwife?
I've watched women becoming mothers for nigh on 30 years, and midwife or not, you're no different from the rest.
Meanwhile, Nurse Crane reminded me that, as a midwife, I can choose which colleague I'd like to deliver my baby.
Elsie Taggart was the midwife.
I was the midwife when she was born.
Get tow-lines on the midwife's cart!
Get the midwife.
I'm the midwife around here.
Had the midwife delivered that baby yet?
Why is the midwife here?
This is a midwife's task.
Juana is the best midwife in this area.
Going to see the midwife maybe?
Suddenly the door opened and the midwife came out.
Did you tell the midwife to kill the baby?
I can just see myself playing midwife in the middle of a bouncing Jeep.
Well, I'm afraid Mike will have to do the midwife honors.
But my grandmother happened to be a midwife.
She is the village midwife?
Mr. Klemper, a midwife needs a baby, right?
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes in state no bigger than an agate-stone on the forefinger of an alderman, drawn with a team of little atomies, athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
Sometimes the midwife come.
I feel like a midwife.
See now Kjeld, the obese animals render around with her midwife bag and looks at you with wet dogs eyes.
She is examined and attended to by a midwife and a doctor, all free of charge.
When the prison matron, who was also the prison midwife, filled in my birth certificate, she caused what may be regarded as the one blot on my family escutcheon, and as a result I never knew my father's name.
We must get to the midwife.
Johansson! We must get Eva to the midwife!
That's why I work as a midwife.
But I think the hairdo is more suited to a midwife.
What's the midwife doing here?
Three hours by car! Don't you have a midwife around here?
She could be pregnant! The midwife couldn't be sure.
The doctor, the midwife and Count Vronsky.

News and current affairs

Once, I heard a dreadful story of a breech birth which a traditional midwife did not know how to handle.
As soon as the midwife saw that the baby was coming out feet forward, she must have known that there was little she could do to save either mother or baby.
It is extremely successful as a fire brigade or as a midwife, but not as an initiator.
Our faith in the market - for the market is the midwife of technological invention - was a result of this.
The British government did the same, acting as midwife to the Lloyds-Halifax Bank of Scotland combine, now widely seen to have been a major error.
Indian rape laws were changed in the wake of the rape and murder in 2011 of Bhanwari Devi, a 36-year-old midwife whose accusations of sexual misconduct implicated senior political figures.
They give birth at home, perhaps with the help of a midwife who most likely has no medical training.
In truth, US policy on the Taliban, at whose birth the CIA played midwife, is coming full circle for the second time in little more than 15 years.

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