a person, especially a woman, who is trained to help women give birth to babiescomparedoulaWordfinderbirthbirth,breech birth,caesarean,contraction,deliver,induce,labour,midwife,obstetrics,umbilical cordOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivecertified nurse,qualified,registered,…midwife + verbdeliver a baby,attend a birthSeefull entrySee related entries:Medical staff,Birth,ProfessionsWord 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)’.
See midwife in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
