How to Use midwifery in a Sentence

midwifery

noun

• The deputy director of midwifery, Amy Stubbs, showed the Princess around the ward.
  — Town & Country, 8 Oct. 2022
• Once upon a time, midwifery in the US was a Black woman’s trade.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 July 2022
• My mother at the age of 72, went to the Peace Corps and did two years of teaching midwifery in Uganda.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• And then do that for a couple of years, and then go onto midwifery school.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 21 Feb. 2019
• For midwifery supporters, 2017 has been a year of firsts.
  — Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 15 May 2017
• So if the midwifery model works for royal babies, why not our own?
  — Ranjani Chakraborty, Vox, 29 May 2018
• That is part of why midwifery somehow still seemed too fringe, too unorthodox, too risky.
  — Time, 23 Jan. 2023
• One midwifery group was able to get more than a third of its patients to stop smoking between their first visit and giving birth.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2024
• One of the biggest issues with changing providers in mid- or late pregnancy is that it short-circuits the process that is one of midwifery’s hallmarks.
  — Nina Martin, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2020
• How did the once common practice of Black midwifery in Georgia get run underground?
  — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• Shields, a former high school math teacher, stopped working to stay at home with his kids after his wife finished school for nurse-midwifery.
  — Danielle Tullo, Cosmopolitan, 16 Feb. 2016
• Through the lens of this modern-day witch hunt, the film examines the battle between medicine and midwifery and its impact on maternal child health.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 Sep. 2022
• Last year, the center’s midwifery practice assisted in about 90 births.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Her point, and her work on the subject, have already influenced midwifery in her country, New Zealand.
  — Sarah Sloat, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
• And the money is going to go to fund scholarships for Black and Indigenous midwifery students.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
• The clinic has been working to crosstrain staff in the other health care services the clinic provides, including midwifery.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 19 June 2022
• The birth center closed, but advocates are not ready to give up their fight for midwifery care in their region or in Massachusetts.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
• In this staged reading of Evelina Fernández’s new play, a woman tries to train a protege in an unusual kind of midwifery.
  — Kathleen Dixon, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Bowens, who is studying midwifery, credits the pandemic to her path in birth work, which her oldest daughter also wants to pursue.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Across the province, Nunavut has funding for 10 full-time midwifery jobs, but currently, only two are filled with permanent staff.
  — Kelly Grant/the Globe and Mail (canada), San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
• Their decisions would reflect the patchwork landscape of midwifery laws.
  — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• This history underlies why many Americans at worst, think of midwifery as unsafe or don’t think about it at all.
  — Sarah Sloat, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
• It’s meant to combine the best of both worlds—preserving the wisdom and tradition of midwifery with the data and resources of institutional health.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
• After four weeks Jo went back to work and was transferred into community midwifery.
  — Ellie Broughton, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• And that has continued post-slavery, with the turn of the 20th century, when White men came and really and took over the profession of birthing and eradicated midwifery.
  — Julianne McShane, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Parker’s two-year midwifery license was due to expire in October.
  — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
• Yet compared with states where midwifery care is well-established, Texas has more limitations on the scope of midwives’ practice.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Dec. 2020
• Home birth is becoming more popular in the U.S. regardless of the risks, so some states are beginning to take another look at midwifery.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• According to research cited multiple times throughout the event, midwifery could prevent more than 80 percent of maternal deaths.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
• Elsewhere in the panel, Milner shared that research on midwifery and intergenerational traumas associated with Black women was a part of her process for writing One Blood.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024