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15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, saying, 16 “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to ...
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee; 25 September 1935 – 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist.She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
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Salome herself is clearly distinguished from "the midwife" in this infancy gospel attributed to James the Just, also known as the Protevangelion of James. The passage in Chapter XIX and XX reads, in the edition and translation by M. R. James: (Ch XIX, 3) And the midwife went forth of the cave and Salome met her.
Kitzinger was born in Taunton, Somerset.She was a social anthropologist specialising in pregnancy, childbirth and the parenting of babies and young children. She campaigned for women to have the information they need to make choices about childbirth and was a well known advocate for breastfeeding. [2]
Midwifery-led care has effects including the following: [8] a reduction in the use of epidurals, with fewer episiotomies or instrumental births. a longer mean length of labour as measured in hours; increased chances of being cared for in labour by a midwife known by the childbearing woman; increased chances of having a spontaneous vaginal birth
Margaret Stephen was a British midwife, midwifery teacher and author, active in London in the late 18th century, who published Domestic Midwife (1795), one of a handful of textbooks on midwifery from that era that is by a woman.
The birthing chair has been used for millennia, appearing for example in Exodus 1:16: And he said, 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the birthstool. Birthing chairs took the place of laboring mothers sitting on birth attendant's laps, as it was the previous practice.