Evangeline Lilly

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?

Canadian Actress

Ram Dass

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

American Psychologist

Emma Willis

I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?

English Celebrity

Katie Piper

I had such a nurturing team of midwives looking after me with my first little girl, and their support gave me so much confidence as a mother.

English Writer

Zazie Beetz

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

German Actress

David Ogilvy

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

English Businessman

Johannes Kepler

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

German Scientist

Sissy Spacek

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

American Actress

Ina May Gaskin

We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

American Celebrity

Allison Anders

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

American Director

While traditionally female, men can also be midwives.

Gender-specific

Midwives undergo rigorous training to support births professionally.

Professionally trained

Midwives provide care before, during, and after childbirth.

Beyond delivery

The term is used metaphorically to describe facilitating an outcome.

Metaphorical usage

A midwife in business contexts assists in the birth of new concepts.

Innovation catalyst

Sometimes an event or process is described as a midwife of change.

Not always a person

 systems of accountability for all sorts of institutions and professionals and officials and so on that will make it easier for us to judge their trustworthiness. A lot of these systems have the converse effect. They don't work as they're supposed to. I remember I was talking with a midwife who said,

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 said let's do it the women said we agree we'll use pills but we need a doctors to prescribe the pills and we had very very few doctors so we didn't take no as an answer we took no as a question so we went to the nurses and the midwives who were also women and did a fantastic job

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 who did many things in terms of creating institutions, but was the midwife of our constitution. And I would say to you that these are folks who, when our country was threatened, or our world was threatened, they didn't retreat. They didn't talk about building walls.

Why civilians suffer...

 I landed in a thatched hut with a midwife. As a mother, I was very curious on how she delivered babies in her house. After a deep and engaging conversation with her on how she considered it a profound calling to do what she was doing, I asked her a parting

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 prenatal checkups would be at every stage of the pregnancy I saw my midwives regularly up to the delivery and met the backroom physician on my tour of the hospital birthing center I had a support system in place I was lucky I knew how I

Caring for maternal...

 But those aren't the things that stuck with me or guided me when I stopped being a midwife and started other jobs. What stuck with me was this bedrock belief that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth.

Say your truths and seek...

 my husband was pressing down on my sacrum to keep my body from breaking. My father was waiting behind the hospital curtain more like hiding. But my mother was at my side. The midwife said she could see the baby's head,

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 But this she doesn't need-- the attentions of the worst midwife in the world. The crow's anxious to speed the process along. The turtle knows what the crow's after, and she has a decision to make.

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 also comes with a team approach, as much how to work in teams as how to lead them, with a dose of humility. Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives,

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 this during the night a male iberian midwife toad has kept a chain of eggs moist in the pool wrapped around his

Midwife