Definition of Midwife. Meaning of Midwife. Synonyms of Midwife

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Definition of Midwife

Midwife
Midwife Mid"wife`, v. t. To assist in childbirth.
Midwife
Midwife Mid"wife`, v. i. To perform the office of midwife.
Midwife
Midwife Mid"wife`, n.; pl. Midwives. [OE. midwif, fr. AS. mid with (akin to Gr. ?) + ? woman, wife. Properly, the woman or wife who is attendant upon a woman in childbirth. See Meta-, and Wife.] A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

Meaning of Midwife from wikipedia

- A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery. The education...
- Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s...
- Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who died shortly before...
- The Midwife (French: Sage femme) is a 2017 drama film directed by Martin Provost. It was screened out of competition at the 67th Berlin International...
- A nurse midwife is both a nurse (usually a registered nurse) and a midwife, having completed nursing and midwifery education leading to practice as a nurse...
- Midwife toads are a genus (Alytes) of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae), and are found in most of Europe and northwestern Africa...
- A death midwife, or death doula, is a person who ****ists in the dying process, much like a midwife or doula does with the birthing process. It is often...
- about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse...
- The International Day of the Midwife is annually celebrated on 5 May, and was established in 1992 by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)...
- previous general training). A professional in midwifery is known as a midwife. A 2013 Cochrane review concluded that "most women should be offered midwifery-led...