A midwife is a trained professional who helps women during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the early days after a baby is born. Midwives focus on supporting natural birth and the health of both mother and child.
From Middle English ‘midwif,’ where ‘mid’ meant ‘with’ and ‘wif’ meant ‘woman.’ It literally meant ‘with-woman,’ someone who is with the woman in childbirth.
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