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Midwife

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Midwife 

a person on the middle level of the medical staff, having completed medical school (a three-year course in the USSR), giving assistance to pregnant women in labor. Midwives are also responsible for “patronage,” that is, their presence and observation in the homes of pregnant women and mothers during the early postpartum period.
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(Mary Bogdanovna was a midwife from the neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The life of her governess, as she calls her, who had run through, it seems, in a few years, all the eminent degrees of a gentlewoman, a whore, and a bawd; a midwife and a midwife-keeper, as they are called; a pawnbroker, a childtaker, a receiver of thieves, and of thieves' purchase, that is to say, of stolen goods; and in a word, herself a thief, a breeder up of thieves and the like, and yet at last a penitent.
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The child was indeed to all appearances perfect; but the midwife discovered it was born a month before its full time.
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