What's the difference between midwife and midwive?
Midwife
Definition:
(n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
(v. t.) To assist in childbirth.
(v. i.) To perform the office of midwife.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
(2) Call the Midwife – again the most watched show of the day – averaged 9.2 million viewers and a 31.3% audience share from 8pm.
(3) Thanks to a midwife’s visit and the Herts air ambulance, she survived – with a rare pituitary gland condition identified weeks later.
(4) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(5) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(6) The midwife in the maternity unit can look at the tracing and ask the patient to come if the tracing is insufficient or suspicious.
(7) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(8) The move echoes its decision earlier this year to move another soap, Coronation Street, to Sundays to go head to head with the last episode of hit BBC1 drama Call The Midwife .
(9) One thing we don't talk about is the midwife, because there won't be one.
(10) We argue that the results of prenatal screening for illegal drug use should not be used for determination of child abuse and that the nurse-midwife should not be required to report the results of these screens for illegal drugs to state child protection agencies.
(11) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
(12) These could be grouped as follows: time consuming procedures (physical examination of the mother or baby, PKU testing), administration-related (the number of other visits that day, the need to liaise with general practitioners or health visitors, whether the mother was already known to the midwife, the time kept waiting at the house), feeding-related (the existence of feeding problems, whether the mother had breast fed previously) and delivery-related (the existence of complications during the delivery).
(13) The pressure on each midwife from the NHS, the patients and their families is marked and I know that I have a challenging time ahead of me, not just in my three years of training but throughout my whole career.
(14) Midwives have contended that midwifery and obstetric workloads could not be measured and that only a 1:1 ratio of mother to midwife should occur, at least in the labour ward environment.
(15) An analysis of BBC1, compiled using Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) figures, of the hours between 6pm and 10pm from 15 January, when the first episode of Call the Midwife was screened, to 5 February, showed that 90% of the audience was over 35, meaning just 719,000 under-35s were watching.
(16) Results showed that knowledge and use of the pill were significantly higher in the project villages than in control villages, where the pill was supplied by a nonresident rural midwife: 28 percent of married women of reproductive age were using the pill in project villages compared with 15 percent in control villages.
(17) As a result of some serious program defects (lab results unavailable before the abortion procedure), the nurse-midwife was given extensive responsibility.
(18) A descriptive case study to explore women's choice of having a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) manage their hospital births was conducted in the District of Columbia (DC).
(19) The acute shortage is leading to the temporary closure of both some hospital maternity units, forcing mothers-to-be to go elsewhere when they are already in labour, and some midwife-led birth centres.
(20) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
Midwive
Definition:
(v. t.) To midwife.
Example Sentences:
(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) Midwives are facing increasing pressure with chronic staff shortages, the ongoing baby boom and increasing numbers of complications in pregnancy.
(3) The Royal College of Midwives said its members would still help women giving birth, but that ante- and postnatal appointments would be affected by the walkout.
(4) So how can healthcare professionals, nurses, midwives be part of this digital space, how can we make a difference?
(5) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(6) Those opposed to the introduction of midwives did not think the public would benefit, and some were concerned that midwives would reduce the size of their own obstetric practices.
(7) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(8) The Institute grew and formed an organization with local groups of midwives throughout England and Wales.
(9) Royal College of Midwives supportive of Britain's EU membership Read more Over the same period, the proportion of EEA migrants in the education workforce rose from 27% to 37.5%.
(10) Nurses and midwives perform most of the obstetric functions at the Karawa Hospital Maternity Center.
(11) Cost estimates for physician care, hospital care, and nurse midwives indicate that total perinatal care decreased during the program.
(12) Three groups of allied health professionals, including dental hygienists, dietitians, and certified nurse-midwives, were surveyed to determine current practice, beliefs, and attitudes regarding health promotion and disease prevention.
(13) Part 1 of the bibliography printed here covers the following topics: 1) professional goals and philosophy of midwives; 2) education of midwives regarding family planning practice; 3) education of patients in family planning; and 4) midwives' practice with specific birth control methods.
(14) In England, midwives teach classes of 20 women for 5 contact hours in late pregnancy, and are expected to cover all aspects of pregnancy, labor, delivery, baby care, postnatal adjustment and support services.
(15) There were highly significant differences between the TENS and the TENS placebo users in terms of favourable and unfavourable comments by the mothers and the midwives at 1 and 24 h after delivery.
(16) Investing in safe maternity services is cost-effective in the long run.” The guidance, which was commissioned by the Department of Health and NHS England in November 2013, advises staff to identify when there are too few midwives on hand.
(17) I mean, if there was a letter from 50 midwives saying: ‘The only thing that makes our lives bearable is watching Poldark’ – that’s a worthwhile letter.
(18) It is time to care about the NHS so that doctors, nurses, care workers, midwives are able to spend proper time with us – and not to be rushed off their feet.” However, the Tories said the plan to raise £2.5bn contained an £850m black hole since two of Labour’s loophole measures would raise no revenue.
(19) 292 village midwives (bidans) in Malaysia were interviewed between January 1969 and December 1970 as they came to report for training.
(20) The study was carried out for investigating the attitudes towards breast-feeding among doctors, nurses, and midwives working in primary health service units providing care for mother and child in certain areas.