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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 specialisation 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, 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) is a nurse midwife who exceeds the International Confederation of Midwives' essential competencies for a midwife and is also...
- The following is a list of characters from Call the Midwife, a British television period-drama series shown on BBC One since 2012. Remains the part of...
- 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...
- Siblings, Alison in Dead Pixels, Barbara Gilbert in the BBC drama Call the Midwife, George in Feel Good and Kate Galvin in You. She was a member of the classical...
- 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...