midwife
助产士,接生婆,接生员,助产师
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plural mid·wives [mid-wahyvz]. /ˈmɪdˌwaɪvz/.
- : a person trained to assist women in childbirth.
- : a person or thing that produces or aids in producing something new or different.
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mid·wifed or mid·wived, mid·wif·ing or mid·wiv·ing.
- : to assist in the birth of.
- : to produce or aid in producing: to midwife a new generation of computers.
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You can define sex as being based on your body and whether the doctor or midwife said you were a boy or girl when you were born.
Watterdal holds weekly WhatsApp calls with Taliban officials, who, he says, have understood that in order for their communities to have midwives, women must be educated through twelfth grade.
Most others had their babies delivered by midwives and their fevers and wounds treated by family members or local healers.
What was remarkable, considering that this was a patriarchy, is that the most valued witnesses were the women who supervised the birth, the midwife and nurses.
Rhea had already given birth five times, and each time, Gaia attended her daughter as midwife.
The parents had chosen to give birth at home, with a certified professional midwife attending.
At the time of her arrival in 2011, many of the facilities in Liberia lacked even a single midwife, let alone trained OB/GYNs.
It means care with a mother-focused doctor or midwife, sometimes in a place other than a hospital.
Later on they came and said something else, but a midwife later told me the same [not to have more children].
Instead, he wound up being the midwife for the Soviet Union's demise.
In this case the midwife was afraid to go alone with her summoner, and begged that her husband might accompany her.