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
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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
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Being a midwife enables you to have a special relationship with people; one that you cannot find in any other profession.Jennifer Fields
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One of the best aspects of being a nurse-midwife is that you can meet people from many different cultures.Jennifer Fields
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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
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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
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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
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Midwives in some states are referred to as lay midwives.Sandi Doughton
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Some midwives who practice without a formal education or licensure call themselves lay midwives.Sandi Doughton
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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
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My uterus allowed me to become a literal home for another person.Ina May Gaskin
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In pregnancy, my body was more clearly a temple than it had ever been before.Ina May Gaskin
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I learned more deeply than I'd ever known before that my body was indeed was a residential space.Ina May Gaskin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.Jessica Raine
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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