midwife
/ˈmɪdˌwaɪf/
noun
- A person trained to assist women during childbirth and provide care for mothers and newborns.
- She decided to become a midwife after her own positive birth experience.
- The hospital has a team of midwives available 24 hours a day.
- The midwife helped deliver the baby safely at home.
verb
- To help bring something into being or facilitate its development.
- The committee midwifed the new policy through months of negotiation.
- Her leadership midwifed the company's expansion into new markets.
- The professor midwifed the student's research project from idea to publication.
- To assist in the birth of a baby.
- The experienced nurse midwifed the birth of twins.
- She has midwifed over a hundred babies in her career.
- He trained for years to learn how to midwife in remote areas.