0 a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when they are giving birth
1 a person, usually a woman, who is not a doctor and who has been trained to help women when they are giving birth
Were midwives to examine all babies on normal wards, savings would increase to approximately £4.30 per baby born or £2.5 million nationally.
However, frequency of contact with midwives did not entail consistency of service.
Since independence, the state has been a sort of midwife to private industrialists.
The proper aim of political activity is thus parallel to the proper activity of a midwife.
As such, women are generally able to access midwives for community-based ante- and postnatal care through the national health services.
Another factor was whether infants were delivered by doctors or midwives.
Trained midwives had difficulty throughout the inter-war period in obtaining replacement drugs and renewing their equipment.
Some trained midwives had their special licences wrongly replaced by ordinary ones and some midwives were charged for licences they never received.
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