nurse-midwife

[nurs-mid-wahyf]

noun

plural

nurse-midwives 

1. a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.

Example Sentences

“We’re seeing more pregnant women detained again after not seeing much of that, at least not in ICE detention,” said Amanda Heffernan, a longtime nurse-midwife and professor of midwifery at Seattle University.

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“We see a lot of patients on lunch breaks,” said Leah Coplon, a nurse-midwife and director of clinical operations at Abortion on Demand.

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Conlee is a practicing family medicine doctor and medical director overseeing four rural areas with a team of OB-GYNs, family physicians, and a nurse-midwife.

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She returned to her homeland as its first medically trained nurse-midwife.

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For several weeks a year, the work of nurse-midwife Karen Sheffield-Abdullah is really detective work.

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