The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, part of an Anglican religious order, coping with the medical problems in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End in the 1950s.
Yvonne Cryns (born 1951), American midwife and political activist.
A midwife from Mitsamiouli village, she made history in 2004 by becoming the first woman to join the Assembly of the Union of the Comoros.
Studying Entamoeba invadens, David Biron of the Weizmann Institute of Science and coworkers found that about one third of the cells are unable to separate unaided and recruit a neighboring amoeba (dubbed the "midwife") to complete the fission.
Elizabeth was a midwife and William was a whaler who had served as a soldier at the Battle of Waterloo.
By training, Colinet was a midwife-surgeon who perfected the techniques in Germany of Caesarean section delivery (which hadn't changed since the days of Julius Caesar).
Marjory Cobbe, English midwife granted a pensio in 1469 for attending the wife of Edward IV
She first studied nursing at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and in 1957 she started training as a midwife at Queen Charlotte's in London.
Douglas Mary McKain (1789–1873), New Zealand nurse, midwife and businesswoman
Emma's water breaks and Gibbs doubles up as midwife while Ziva engages in a gunfight to fend and kill the mercenaries who have been tailing her, Gibbs and Emma.
Nesterović was born in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia to father Čedo, a Bosnian Serb employee of the Slovenian Railways, and a Slovene mother Branka, a midwife in the Ljubljana University Medical Centre.
Near Straelen the magistrates arrested another 10 witches, who in their turn accused a midwife named Entjen Gillis.
The hospital, originally known as "The Dublin Lying-In Hospital", was founded in 1745 by Bartholomew Mosse (1712-1759), a surgeon and man-midwife who was appalled at the conditions that pregnant mothers had to endure at the time.
She graduated from the University of Otago Christchurch School of Medicine and became a midwife in Nauru.
Her most recent role was as a midwife named Cheryl in EastEnders, alongside Emma Barton (Honey Mitchell) and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell), in a storyline about Down's syndrome.
Aminata Diallo, the daughter of a jeweller and a midwife, is kidnapped at the age of 11 from her village Bayo, near Segu in West Africa and forced to walk for days to the sea in a coffle with hundreds of strangers and a handful of people from her village.
During the Birds Of Prey relaunch tie in with Brightest Day, it is revealed that one of the female children born to Huang was spared after lightning appeared on the day of her birth and killed her midwife, making Huang believe that something powerful wanted her to live.
In the television show Charmed, a Salem antagonist midwife, Ruth Cobb (Judy Geeson) from the 17th century uses the Tarot deck to foretell the future of the Halliwell Sisters during their time travel to witch-hunt times.