Artemis believed that she had been chosen by the Fates to be a midwife, particularly since she had assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin brother, Apollo.

The term midwife is derived from, literally " with-woman ", i. e. " the woman with ( the mother at birth ), the woman assisting " ( in Middle English and Old English, mid

He states in his work, Gynecology, that “ a suitable person will be literate, with her wits about her, possessed of a good memory, loving work, respectable and generally not unduly handicapped as regards her senses sight, smell, hearing, sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips .” Soranus also recommends that the midwife be of sympathetic disposition ( although she need not have borne a child herself ) and that she keep her hands soft for the comfort of both mother and child.

* Patty Bartlett Sessions, American mother, pioneer, agriculturalist and midwife

His mother, a devout Methodist, was a midwife who later obtained her medical license.

Socrates says he has modelled his career after his midwife mother.

Later, his mother worked as a midwife ( often donating her services ), and owned a shop in part of her rented house which sold groceries and household goods.

In creation texts, Ninmah ( another name for Ninhursag ) acts as a midwife whilst the mother goddess Nammu makes different kinds of human individuals from lumps of clay at a feast given by Enki to celebrate the creation of humankind.

It was very important for them because the father was concerned about the well being of the mother and the baby, ( many times the mother and the baby died in the process of giving birth ) A midwife would speak to children who were being delivered as if they were adults, able to reason and understand, and then implore the gods that his birth insure a prime place among them.

Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton.

His mother was a midwife and his father a self-employed builder ( and ex lay preacher ).

Before the black sorceress arrives to claim the child, Elora's mother convinces her reluctant midwife to escape with the baby.

Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.

Because the character is born in a sailing town, the caul is considered valuable, and the mother gives it to the midwife for safe keeping.

The midwife introduced Polly to her close friend, Mrs Freeman, a mother of ten children, whose husband George Freeman was a Billingsgate fishmonger.

Smith's mother Julina worked as a midwife to help provide for the family ; she delivered nearly 1, 000 babies in her career without ever having a mother or infant die in childbirth.

His mother was a midwife, while his father sometimes worked as many as three jobs — as a foundry worker, janitor, and landscaper — to make ends meet.

Sometimes the artistic name consists of the home town appended to the first name ( Manolo Sanlúcar, Ramón de Algeciras ); but many, perhaps most, of such names are more eccentric: Pepe de la Matrona ( because his mother was a midwife ); Perico del Lunar ( because he had a mole ); Tomatito ( son of a father known as Tomate ( tomato ) because of his red face ); Sabicas ( because of his childhood passion for green beans, from niño de las habicas ); and many more.

His mother, Sonia Rojas Breton, owned a handwritten birth certificate saying that he had been born at home in Jamao with the help of a midwife in 1989.

Kingston remarks, “ My mother ’ s enthusiasm for me is duller than for the slave girl ; nor did I replace the older brother and sister who died while they were still cuddly .” Her mother also complains that she had to pay two hundred dollars to the doctor and hospital for her while “ during the war many people gave older girls away for free .” As a midwife in her village, Brave Orchid never treated those about to die ; however, she could not choose which kinds of babies to deliver as with the old and sick: “ One child born without an anus was left in the outhouse so that the family would not have to hear it cry .” The villagers would attribute baby defects to ghosts while Brave Orchid would say “ the baby looked pretty .” Brave Orchid was faced with many other difficult situations, and she always meant well.

Her grandmother was a veterinary surgeon, and her mother worked as a midwife.

In the 1920s, experiments by Paul Kammerer on amphibians, particularly the midwife toad, appeared to find evidence supporting Lamarckism, but his specimens with supposedly acquired black foot-pads were found to have been tampered with.

The parish of Birmingham gained its own religious guild with the foundation in 1392 of the Guild of the Holy Cross, which provided a social and political focus for the elite of the town as well as supporting chaplains, almshouses, a midwife, a clock, the bridge over the River Rea and " divers ffoule and daungerous high wayes ".

Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife ; and Virbius, the woodland god.

Robinson's daughter, Sharon, became a midwife, educator, director of educational programming for MLB, and the author of two books about her father.

Scribonia was a midwife and the relief shows her in the midst of a delivery.

A patient sits in the birthing chair, gripping the handles and the midwife ’ s assistant stands behind her providing support.

This term does not necessarily mean a low level of education, just that the midwife either chose not to become certified or licensed, or there was no certification available for her type of education ( as was the fact before the Certified Professional Midwife ( CPM ) credential was available ).

* The " magical " or " sorcerer " witch: either a professional healer, sorcerer, seer or midwife, or a person who has through magic increased her fortune to the perceived detriment of a neighbouring household ; due to neighbourly or community rivalries and the ambiguity between positive and negative magic, such individuals can become labelled as witches.

Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

The Empress had ordered the midwife to take the baby and to follow her.

On the first visit to her obstetrician or midwife, the pregnant woman is asked to carry out the antenatal record, which constitutes a medical history and physical examination.

While her daughter is dying, Mrs Kemp has a long talk with Mrs Hodges, a midwife and sick-nurse.

This manifestation of Cihuacoatl was always hungry for new victims, just as her midwife manifestation helped to produce new babies viewed as captives.

The midwife, Granny Weatherwax, tries to point out that they are making a mistake but Billet and the new father ignore her.

" A popular medieval saying was, " The better the witch ; the better the midwife "; to guard against witchcraft, the Church required midwives to be licensed by a bishop and swear an oath not to use magic when assisting women through labour.

The term " Lay Midwife " has been used to designate an uncertified or unlicensed traditional midwife who was educated through informal routes such as self-study or apprenticeship rather than through a formal program.

A large 2009 study reported that, in the Netherlands, planned home birth led by a midwife at onset of labor " does not increase the risks of perinatal mortality and severe perinatal morbidity among low-risk women, provided the maternity care system facilitates this choice through the availability of well-trained midwives and through a good transportation and referral system.

Women are attended when they are assisted through labor and birth by a professional, usually a midwife, and rarely a general practitioner.

Indeed, in Thief of Time, Nanny Ogg is sought through various timeframes as she is / will become the best midwife in the world, perhaps evinced by her statement that she has even served as midwife for entirely non-human species like Trolls.

* External cephalic version where a midwife or doctor turns the baby by manipulating the baby through the mother's abdomen.

She was like a midwife helping them to go through that process .” Dorothy Maclean, now also living and working in London, says: “ She ’ d know what stood between you and your divinity, what you put before the divine .” Eileen Caddy, who had met Peter Caddy in 1952 at RAF Habbaniyah, joined them in London in 1953, soon Dorothy Maclean was to join in, thus at one point all the future founders of the Findhorn Foundation were part of her London group.

Plato's final dialogue on rhetoric, the Phaedrus ( ca. 370 BC ), offered a more moderate view of rhetoric, acknowledging its value in the hands of a true philosopher ( the " midwife of the soul ") for " winning the soul through discourse.

The NMAP calls on both Federal and State / Territory governments to facilitate substantial change to the way in which maternity services are provided, by making available to all women the choice of having a community midwife provide continuous maternity care through the publicly funded health system.

Most children within the group are born through a home birth with a midwife, though a hospital may sometimes be used.