What's the midwife doing here?

One midwife for every 20,535 inhabitants.

A traditional midwife is a professional.

Similarly 40 rural women were assisted by a trained midwife compared with 31 urban women.

It has been sent to all medical institutions, even to rural outpatient clinics and midwife stations.

She is the fairies' midwife and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone

It is extremely successful as a fire brigade or as a midwife , but not as an initiator .

Of this figure, 78 met with a nurse or midwife and 13 saw a doctor for antenatal care.

Our faith in the market for the market is the midwife of technological invention was a result of this.

They give birth at home, perhaps with the help of a midwife who most likely has no medical training.

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son.

Ever since UN peacekeepers were deployed in 1964, the UN has been the only party acceptable to all sides as a midwife of compromise.

When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, This came out first.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not thou shalt have this son also.

The British government did the same, acting as midwife to the Lloyds Halifax Bank of Scotland combine, now widely seen to have been a major error.

The conditions are being created to attract qualified physicians to rural areas, and projects are being implemented to build midwife stations that include medical worker housing.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.

Many medical nurse and midwife facilities are being reorganised into full treatment facilities, and their number declined by 69 between 1999 and 2001, to a total of 303.

The local hospital was built in 1971 and is staffed by a qualified medical officer from the United Kingdom, assisted by two locally trained nurses and a midwife.

Some 37 of services in rural areas are provided by a physician, and 30.2 , by a midwife in the city, physicians provide 63.0 of the services, and midwives, 21 .

It has managed to be the harbinger and the midwife, acting sometimes against and in the face of powerful interests that would rather see the status quo maintained at all costs.

It started with a scene of the midwife and her husband heading to the Aqils house to deliver the future hero, who was born on June the 19th 1971 in Jabaliya camp.

And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first,

(ii) The leave shall commence six weeks prior to the anticipated date of birth upon production of a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner or midwife indicating the anticipated date of birth.

These points might guide our work here in the Conference on Disarmament, a forum which negotiated and acted as midwife to the NPT, so closely is our Conference linked to the non proliferation regime.

Within a given culture, elements of indigenous medicine knowledge may be diffusely known by many, or may be gathered and applied by those in a specific role of healer such as a shaman or midwife.

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools if it be a son, then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Three Egyptian mothers who have refused to circumcise their daughters and 67 year old midwife Samiha Saeed (on the far right), who stopped performing FGM surgeries after attending some awareness campaigns by Egypt s non governmental organisations in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya.

and he said, When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool if it is a son, then you shall kill him but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Also, looked at from the standpoint of the person who attended the delivery, 42.9 per cent of the women who died were attended by a birth attendant (midwife), while only one third of maternal mortalities occurred in deliveries attended by a doctor.

S 18(1) provides for registration by the father or mother a member of the family the doctor, midwife, or medical officer present at the birth person at whose house the birth took place, the village chief, local leader or clergyman or any person having knowledge of the birth.

However, at the staff member's request and upon production of a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner or midwife indicating that she is fit to continue working, the absence may be permitted to commence less than six weeks but normally not less than two weeks before the anticipated date of birth.

Inspired by this story, and dozens of other similar stories like this, my team and I realized what was needed was a local solution, something that could work without electricity, that was simple enough for a mother or a midwife to use, given that the majority of births still take place in the home.

Inspired by this story, and dozens of other similar stories like this, my team and I realized what was needed was a local solution, something that could work without electricity, that was simple enough for a mother or a midwife to use, given that the majority of births still take place in the home.

Seven women out of every 1000 die for reasons relating to pregnancy and childbirth and there is one midwife for every 1857 assisted births. The vulnerability of women from the point of view of health is a result of poor hygiene conditions coupled with the country's economic problems and traditional practices, in particular early marriage, early motherhood and the refusal to attend health centres where they exist.