How to Use obstetric in a Sentence

obstetric

adjective
  • That's called doing an obstetric exam, to see if the cow is fertile.
    — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2014
  • About 39% of counties don’t have a single obstetric provider.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
  • More than 2 million women live in counties with no birth center or other obstetric care.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Rural hospitals and obstetric wards, already scarce, have shut down in record numbers.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Exceptions can be made for pediatric patients, those at end of life and for obstetric patients.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
  • Due to the risk of aspiration, restricting foods or fluids by mouth has been an obstetric practice for a long time.
    — Elizabeth Stein, Cnm, Parents, 7 June 2024
  • Hospitals have closed obstetric units.
    — Liyah Wasson, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The analysis found that over half of US counties do not have a hospital that provides obstetric care.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • In a room at the obstetric emergency department, a nurse wrapped a sensor belt around Crain’s belly to check the fetal heart rate.
    — Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Data published by the March of Dimes last week show that access to obstetric services across the state remains robust.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Eighteen of the state’s 21 rural hospitals no longer provide obstetric care.
    — Michelle Nall, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Eleven of Wisconsin's rural obstetric units have closed in the past decade, including Neillsville's.
    — Parker Schorr, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Sadly, a lot of that is rooted in mistreatment and disrespect and obstetric violence in health care setting.
    — Rayna Reid, Essence, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Kent, a firefighter responding to a 911 call, rushed upstairs with his team to the woman’s bedroom with an obstetric kit.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
  • Some 6 percent of these deaths are from obstetric fistulas, and for each of those deaths, as many as four to five more women will live with an obstetric fistula injury.
    — Ashley Judd, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • For some women, the time and distance from hospitals with the resources and specialists to handle an obstetric emergency can be fatal.
    — Betsy McKay and Paul Overberg, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Some obstetric practices will hand the birthing process over to partner midwives if expectant mothers express a wish for an unmedicated birth.
    — David Howard, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Only three of the 14 counties in north-central Florida provide full access to obstetric care.
    — Michelle Nall, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There, doctors decided Ellie needed to be transferred to a hospital with obstetric providers.
    — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • At least 4,300 are believed to be at risk of death and in need of emergency obstetric care, including C-sections.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 23 May 2023
  • The cases argue that midwives play an important role in addressing provider shortages, which have become more acute as hospitals close obstetric units.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • More than half of rural counties, home to more than 2 million women of reproductive age, don’t have hospital obstetric services.
    — Popular Science, 25 June 2020
  • The hospital where one patient, a 42-year-old mother of four, delivered her babies no longer offers obstetric services.
    — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The general sentiment among pregnant women and midwives was that the method provided more agency, and in turn led to better obstetric outcomes.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • In Texas, a woman and her partner may be unable to have children because of delays and dangerous complications to her obstetric care.
    — Jen Stark, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • Equip emergency departments with training and essential equipment to be able to deliver obstetric care.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
  • To prevent this, Jefferson brought on eight Hahnemann ob-gyns and expanded its obstetric unit.
    — Chris Pomorski, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Each additional day, her doctor has told her, makes their birth less likely to require an obstetric or neonatal intervention that might not be available in Gaza.
    — Claire Porter Robbins, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Corinne Low, an economist at Wharton, argues that the transformation of obstetric medicine shows what women need in the workplace.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That's in addition to her regular obstetric appointments.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025

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