Midwife Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old midwife quotes, midwife sayings, and midwife proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Just as the midwife comes alongside a laboring mother, so we are invited to come alongside God in the miracle of birthing new life for the world around us. Michael Frost
The downside to midwifery is that you work holidays and miss family functions , but bringing another person into the world , even at 3 AM , outweighs all the bad stuff Jennifer Fields
Being a midwife enables you to have a special relationship with people; one that you cannot find in any other profession. Jennifer Fields
One of the best aspects of being a nurse-midwife is that you can meet people from many different cultures. Jennifer Fields
A nurse-midwife can also bring the home way of thinking into the hospital. Many nurse-midwives tell stories of doing home-births one day and then doing hospital births the next. Jennifer Fields
During a typical day of work, a nurse midwife will examine a number of pregnant women and monitor the growth and development of their unborn children. Jennifer Fields
Midwives have a professional 'duty of candour', which means that they must make women and families aware if there have been untoward incidents that have put the mother or baby at risk. Helen Baston
Midwives in some states are referred to as lay midwives. Sandi Doughton
Some midwives who practice without a formal education or licensure call themselves lay midwives. Sandi Doughton
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we. Ina May Gaskin
My uterus allowed me to become a literal home for another person. Ina May Gaskin
In pregnancy, my body was more clearly a temple than it had ever been before. Ina May Gaskin
I learned more deeply than I'd ever known before that my body was indeed was a residential space. Ina May Gaskin
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. Ami Mckay
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery. Marsden Wagner
The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher. Martt Ahtisaari
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. Ben Clowes
It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife. Jessica Raine
I truly believe being a midwife is the greatest job for a feminist. It's women helping women, believing in them at a time when they're thinking, 'Am I ever going to get through this?' Emma WIllis