English-Italian translations for midwife

• levatrice
  Baronessa Ashton, so che lei non è un pompiere, una levatrice o una figura simile. Baroness Ashton, I know that you are not a fire-fighter, a midwife or any other such person.
  In secondo luogo, occorre rafforzare gradualmente il ruolo delle Nazioni Unite in Iraq, affinché questa organizzazione vada oltre il suo compito attuale di semplice levatrice del processo democratico. Secondly, the UN’s role in Iraq should gradually be stepped up, and it should go beyond its current role as midwife to the democratic process.
  Vorrei dire innanzi tutto che nessuna levatrice ha la capacità di eliminare le malformazioni congenite, in ostetricia come in politica. I should like first of all to say that no midwife, be it in the field of obstetrics or politics, has the ability to get rid of congenital deformities.
• ostetrica
  Solo il 53 percento delle donne nei paesi in via di sviluppo partorisce in presenza di un medico, di un' infermiera o di un' ostetrica. Only 53% of women in developing countries give birth with a doctor, nurse or midwife present.
  La crisi attuale può dare vita a un'Europa più forte, e la Grecia può essere l'ostetrica di questo cambiamento. The current crisis may give birth to a stronger Europe and Greece may be the midwife of that change.
  L’ostetrica Maria do Ceu, che praticava aborti illegali, è stata condannata a sette anni e mezzo di carcere. Midwife Maria do Ceu, who carried out illegal abortions, was sentenced to seven and a half years’ imprisonment.

Definition of midwife

• A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician
• Someone who assists in bringing about some result or project
• To act as a midwife

Examples

• A hundred years ago, a midwife would bring the baby into the world - going to a hospital to deliver a baby was either impossible or unheard of.
• But the bigger objective was to help Iraqis midwife a democratic model that could inspire reform across the Arab-Muslim world and give the youth there a chance at a better future
• Thomas L. Friedman. "Attention: Baby on Board." New York Times. April 13, 2010

Related words

• midwifery
• man-midwife
• midwife toad
• common midwife toad