How to Use midwifery in a Sentence

midwifery

noun
  • Over time, many in the medical field came to see midwifery as risky.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And then do that for a couple of years, and then go onto midwifery school.
    — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 21 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • Once upon a time, midwifery in the US was a Black woman’s trade.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 July 2022
  • 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
  • The deputy director of midwifery, Amy Stubbs, showed the Princess around the ward.
    — Town & Country, 8 Oct. 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
  • Their decisions would reflect the patchwork landscape of midwifery laws.
    — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, the center’s midwifery practice assisted in about 90 births.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Their findings suggest that the whales offered the calf’s mother a level of assistance that puts midwifery to shame.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Parker’s two-year midwifery license was due to expire in October.
    — Amy Brittain, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • After four weeks Jo went back to work and was transferred into community midwifery.
    — Ellie Broughton, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • How did the once common practice of Black midwifery in Georgia get run underground?
    — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The lawsuit is one of several filed in recent years to challenge state restrictions on the practice of midwifery.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Some physicians and midwives say increasing access to midwifery care could help fill those gaps and improve care for pregnant women.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her point, and her work on the subject, have already influenced midwifery in her country, New Zealand.
    — Sarah Sloat, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The hospital plans to support midwifery care in other ways after closing the birth center, according to a press release.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And the money is going to go to fund scholarships for Black and Indigenous midwifery students.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024
  • 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
  • In Baker’s home state, Wisconsin, a license is required to practice midwifery.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The midwifery group was born out of Karie Stewart’s frustration with a system that was failing Black and brown families.
    — Rod McCullom, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

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