a person, especially a woman, who is trained to help women give birth to babies compare doula助产士;接生员;产婆 WordfinderTopics Medicinec2, Jobsc2, Life stagesc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- certified nurse
- qualified
- registered
- …
- deliver a baby
- attend a birth
Word OriginMiddle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid ‘with’ + wife (in the archaic sense ‘woman’), expressing the sense ‘a woman who is with (the mother)’.