When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first.
The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son.
And then, at last, the midwife came down hastily, crying to him in a thin, joyous voice.
His eyes first of all caught a glimpse of the little red body, which the midwife was bathing in a tub.
The midwife was bustling about him; shaking the crying child in the air.
Everybody was in bed; I saw many midwives' signs, but a midwife was not what I wanted.
The midwife uttered a cry of terror, and ran behind me, exclaiming: "It's thieves!
Boussignol, had had some training as a midwife and did not lose her head.
No and again no, it is not admissable that a midwife should become confused in the essential details of her trade.
The long, being drank in wine, brings away both birth and after-birth, and whatsoever a careless midwife hath left behind.
Why, that would be a great saving, as we shall have to send for the midwife anyhow.
And it couldn't have happened at a better time, as we've got to have themidwife anyhow!
Do you think God has nothing else to do but be a Midwife to Women in Labour?
I sit by the bed and talk to her--even the midwife had gone to buy a cradle at the fair.
Whether she did likewise deny that it was through her malice that the woman Witthan had given birth to a devil's imp, which straightway started up and flew out at the window, so that when the midwife sought for it it had disappeared?
Old Thiemcke died this winter in Loddin, who used to be the midwife in the parish, and had also brought my child into the world.
Cornelia the midwife and myself; And no one else but the delivered Empress.
The midwife and the nurse well made away, Then let the ladies tattle what they please.
This done, see that you take no longer days, But send themidwife presently to me.
And the midwife fled from the room crying for help, and brought my mother and my sister in to try and soothe her.
The wife of the King saw them seated together, and sending for the midwife she angrily asked, "Why do you befool me, old woman?
The midwife took the money and the little dogs and went away.
The old sorceress of a midwifeand one of the king's sisters- in-law were present, and became very uneasy at hearing these words.
And the midwife carried away the children and threw them into the river.
One of the curses of the XIXth century is the increased skill of the midwife and physician, who are now able to preserve worthless lives and to bring up semi-abortions whose only effect upon the breed is increased degeneracy.
They then sent for the midwife of the palace, and heavily bribed her to make away with the infant the moment it was born.
In due time she became pregnant, and on the night of her confinement the midwife was sent for.
FN#426] The king's mother plots with the midwife to do away with the babes and place seven little dogs in bed beside the poor queen.
When the King's new wife was safely delivered, the midwife did according to her agreement with the other wife of the King, and then went before him and said, "I fear to speak.
The King led him by the hand into the garden, and the wife of the King again perceiving him she sent for the midwife and demanded of her, "Why do you mock me again, old woman?
The old midwifeand the king's sister-in-law now felt indisposed and wished to leave the room.
The young queen is brought to bed of a son, and her sisters bribe the midwife to declare that she has given birth to a dog and throw the infant at the gate of one of the royal palaces.
I hesitated a long time before warning you--hesitated even this morning, but I heard the midwife talking with the nurse and learned that to-morrow perhaps it might be too late, so I sent Doctor Pellerin to call you immediately.
If I tell you all this, it is only because you are a midwife, and a midwife in such affairs as this is like a priest in the confessional.
In one month from this date the same midwife delivered thirty women, residing in different parts of an extensive suburb, of which number sixteen caught the disease and all died.
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
The midwife does what is necessary; and the child is admitted into no division of the tribe.
The midwife then takes an old broom and an old winnowing fan and sweeps up a little rubbish on to the fan and takes it and throws it on the dung hill; there she sees the child and calls out.
Instead of a neat cottage the midwife perceives the large overhanging branches of an ancient oak, whose hollow and moss-grown trunk she had before mistaken for the fireplace, where glow-worms supplied the place of lamps.
The unhappy midwife of course determined that it should be a boy; and when a girl arrived she made believe it was a boy, swaddled it up tightly, and went home.
There a girl meets a frog which is painfully bloated, and kicks it unfeelingly aside, with the words: "May you never be delivered till I am midwife to you!
A midwife in Strathspey, on one such occasion, was desired to ask what she would, and it should be granted if in the power of the fairies.
At Palermo a tale is told of a midwife who was one day cooking in her own kitchen when a hand appeared and a voice cried: "Give to me!
A clergyman's wife in Swedish Lappmark, the cleverest midwife in all Sweden, was summoned one fine summer's evening to attend a mysterious being of Troll race and great might, called Vitra.
And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.
They can never come back to their old life, though they retain enough of the "mortal mixture" to require the adventurous human midwife to relieve their pains.
In this tale the midwife acquired her supernatural vision through gratifying her curiosity; but perhaps in the larger number of instances it is acquired by accident.
In this case the midwife was afraid to go alone with her summoner, and begged that her husband might accompany her.
With these words he gave her a whole apronful of black coals, and taking his lantern again he lighted the midwife and her husband home.
I do not know if she called in the midwife already referred to; but the principle on which that lady was recommended, she accepted fully.
As soon as it was dressed the Empress called in her confessor, who gave the child the name of Paul, after which the Empress immediately bade the midwife take the child up and follow her.
The midwife and Madame Vladislava seized me under my arms, and placed me on the "bed of pain," and went to seek the Empress and the Grand Duke.
During one of these halts a figure showed itself amongst the tree aisles which we had left, and presently who should come up but the grim-visaged midwife we had left in Scurujaervi.
The limp woman with the new-born baby stood in the doorway of the dairy-bedroom to listen, and the gaunt midwife came inside and added her clatter to the rest.
He then bid the midwife do her office, and she demanded help, but he drew out his sword, and told her if she did not make speed to do her office without, she must look for nothing but death.
Well, to be short, this old midwife laid the young lady, and a fine sweet babe she had.
The devil made use of the church [the clergy] to midwife this monster into the world.
