How to Use obstetrician in a Sentence
obstetrician
noun-
An obstetrician gave Joice, who was 39 weeks along, the okay to see the show.
— Washington Post, 9 May 2022 -
But sleep was a long way off for the 39-year-old obstetrician.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021 -
The obstetrician lifted the newborn free of the birth canal.
— Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020 -
That’s where Brown and the midwives at Lovers Lane filled a need that Green said her obstetrician didn’t.
— Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021 -
Willie Wise, the son of a Souderton obstetrician, was a coltish 15-year-old in the middle of a growth spurt.
— Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017 -
But abruptly, the technician stopped pointing at the screen and left the room to get the obstetrician.
— Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 May 2023 -
Right now half—half—of all counties in the U.S. do not have a single obstetrician.
— Barbara Brody, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2018 -
During one such birth in 1916, a Texas obstetrician named Robert House asked the husband for a scale to weigh the newborn.
— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021 -
And why, oh why, did my friend have to play back-alley obstetrician?
— Shannon Boodram, Cosmopolitan, 3 Aug. 2017 -
For now, the four obstetricians in town — all women — are digging in.
— Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023 -
For starters, in the new version, twin obstetricians are on a mission to change how women give birth.
— Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023 -
Raised to be an obstetrician at a Maine orphanage, a young man leaves to work at a cider mill with a soldier’s beloved.
— Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021 -
The condition is rare and her obstetrician hadn’t checked for it.
— Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 22 July 2022 -
He’s the obstetrician who saved the lives of our twin sons and my wife in an extremely difficult birth years ago.
— John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021 -
Then again, what the obstetrician was saying made sense.
— Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024 -
There was a high risk for trisomy 18, her obstetrician said.
— Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022 -
Charles Grodin is the well-meaning, blind obstetrician.
— Rich Cohen, WSJ, 23 May 2018 -
The thought of him carrying me through checkpoints to get to our obstetrician, an hour away on foot, or to the ER, is perhaps the most frightening of my life.
— Sophia Jones, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2020 -
Over the same period, only two obstetricians moved to the state to practice.
— Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024 -
Would Aretha have sounded the same if she had been born to a dentist and an obstetrician in Connecticut and trained at Exeter?
— Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Nov. 2019 -
Her obstetrician told her breast changes were common when the body was gearing up for nursing.
— Katherine Malmo, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2017 -
But with God’s help, her great obstetrician, Dr. Ron Lorenzini, with the big hands of a bricklayer, saved them all.
— John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018 -
Pilar first visited the clinic in April of that year to see an obstetrician.
— Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022 -
Faheem Noor Ali cares for his toddler and manages the household when his wife, an obstetrician, is on call.
— Julie Jargon, WSJ, 18 June 2022 -
The local clinic had referred her to an obstetrician in Hanford, a 30-minute drive away.
— Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021 -
At birth, his French obstetrician was critical of us for having brought him into the world.
— WSJ, 7 June 2017 -
His first mainstream film role was a small part as an obstetrician in Rosemary’s Baby.
— Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021 -
Enter Email Sign Up Then, in an obstetrician’s office, his world flipped.
— Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Across the three reservations, only Pine Ridge had an obstetrician for much of the last year, according to several people with direct knowledge of the situation.
— Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 7 May 2024 -
Finally, my parents went to a local obstetrician in Stamford who told them that in his judgement the fibroid would stop growing, allowing for completion of the pregnancy.
— Lisa P. Rimland, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
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