If for any reason there are complications, the village midwife will forward the ‘ patient ’ to the ‘ nurse ’, and if she is unable to help then they are forwarded to the Primary Health Center.

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.

As reported by Sahagún's informants, the midwife would say in florid language: " My son, the gods Ometecutli and Omecioatl who realm in the ninth and tenth heavens, have begotten you in this light and brought you into this world full of calamity and pain take then this water, which will protect you life, in the name of the goddess Chalchiutlicue.

He leaves Margaret with a midwife who promises to care for her in his absence, then he goes out into the city, separating the sick from the well, who have all been quarantined together, and does what he can to ease the suffering of the dying.

It growled and screamed, then killed the midwife before flying up the chimney.

Philosophy, then, is seen as a sort of midwife: she does not give birth to any progress of her own, but proves her worth by making it possible for others to bring their progress into the world.

On the same day, Jarrett then took Eliza to a midwife and abortionist named Louise Mourez, who examined her and attested to her virginity and sold Jarrett a bottle of chloroform.

An artificial rupture of membranes ( AROM ), also known as an amniotomy, may be performed by a midwife or obstetrician.

This term describes a rupture of the membranes by a third party, usually a midwife or obstetrician in order to induce or accelerate labor.

* Suzanne Colson, PhD, a midwife, is widely known for her research of neonatal reflexes in connection to breastfeeding.

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

More likely, Levana was the goddess who oversaw the lifting of the child by the midwife immediately after birth.

Bavmorda sends her daughter Sorsha ( Joanne Whalley ) and General Kael ( Pat Roach ), the leader of her army, after the midwife to retrieve Elora.

That Salome is the first, after the midwife, to bear witness to the Miraculous Birth and to recognize Jesus as the Christ, are circumstances that tend to connect her with Salome the disciple.

It was reported by the Daily Star Sunday that Ronnie experiences a change of heart after visiting relatives in hospital and seeing the midwife who delivered her son.

Every month after, the midwife would take blood pressure to check for toxemia.

" A second examination occurred after Spooner and her confessor, the Reverend Thaddeus Maccarty, protested the midwives ’ report, and four of the examiners joined by another midwife and Spooner ’ s brother-in-law, Dr. John Green, conducted a second examination and supported the claim of pregnancy.

It was reported by the Daily Star Sunday that Ronnie experiences a change of heart after visiting relatives in hospital and seeing the midwife who delivered her son.

The most famous case was of the midwife Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin or La Voisin, who was arrested in 1679 after she was pointed out by the poisoner Marie Bosse.

In the East, some women advanced beyond the profession of midwife ( maia ) to that of gynaecologist ( iatros gynaikeios, translated as women's doctor ), for which formal training was required.

These lying-hospitals were establishments where women would come to have their babies delivered, which had prior been unheard of since the midwife normally came to home of the pregnant woman.

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.

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.

This also accounts for the contemporary title of " midwife to the dying ," which is another form of psychopomp work.

Dr. Lamaze was influenced by Soviet childbirth practices, which involved breathing and relaxation techniques under the supervision of a " monitrice ", or midwife.

The Trust's breeding facility in Jersey, that had been used for re-introduction of the species to its native habitat, has been identified as the source of chytridiomycosis which affects the Mallorcan midwife toad.

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 ".

15 And the midwife said to her, " Salome, Salome, I will tell you a most surprising thing, which I saw.

The discussion of rhetoric, the proper practice of which is found to actually be philosophy, has many similarities with Socrates's role as a " midwife of the soul " in the Theaetetus ; the dialectician, as described, is particularly resonant.

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.

* Sentimentality, which is becoming entrenched in British society, is " the progenitor, the godparent, the midwife of brutality.

Apart from occupations such as doctoress, midwife, and housekeeper, which were considered to be higher employment positions for slave women during the time, the slave elite was nearly entirely made up of men.

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.

But this was misunderstood, and Jerome returned with a midwife, which did not go down well at the Russian court.

The midwife is an obstetrical and religious specialist all at once.

The presence of physicians and surgeons was very rare and only occurred once a serious complication had taken place and the midwife had exhausted all measures to manage the complication.

The text says that he was called Zerah because when he had stuck his hand out before being born, the midwife tied a bright scarlet thread around his wrist ; although all other biblical uses of the word zerah translate as rise, here the name is implied to derive from the colour of the bright thread-scarlet-which is similar to the initial colour of sunrise.

In all countries, it is the responsibility of the mother's physician, midwife, hospital administrator, or the parents of the child to see that the birth is properly registered with the appropriate government agency.

She points out the practice of Amish women keeping labor a secret to all except their own husbands and midwife or obstetrician, as well as the practice of women waiting till active labor before summoning a midwife or OB.

Some obvious occupations for a woman would be wet nurse, actress, dancer or acrobat, prostitute, and midwife — not all of equal respectability.

A comprehensive four-year study of all home births attended by midwives in British Columbia, published in August 2009, found " Planned home birth attended by a registered midwife was associated with very low and comparable rates of perinatal death and reduced rates of obstetric interventions and other adverse perinatal outcomes compared with planned hospital birth attended by a midwife or physician.

It is legal in all 50 states to hire a certified nurse midwife, or CNM, who are trained nurses, though this practice is rare as most CNMs work in hospitals.

Malcolm also has to deal with Big Momma's lecherous boyfriend, Ben Rawley ( Carl Wright ), act as midwife for Ritha Nolan ( Tichina Arnold ), who has gone into labor, and attend self-defense classes under Ritha's older brother and dim-witted security guard, Terry ( Anthony Anderson ), whom Malcolm handily defeats and humiliates in front of all the other old women.

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.

* Ensure all childbearing women have access to continuity of care by a known midwife

The three were all born within seventeen months of each other and within a mile of Kensington Oval in Barbados and Walcott believed that the same midwife delivered each of them.