Thank God, Prissy knew all about midwifery.

感谢上帝，百里茜懂得接生的全过程。

She even built the midwifery school the original Lancet ad had called for.

她甚至建立了最初的《柳叶刀》广告所呼吁的助产学校。

Licensing rules vary across states, and insurance coverage for midwifery services is patchy.

各州的职业证照制度各异，助产服务的保险范围也不尽相同。

By contrast, Sweden has a 300- year-old tradition of professional midwifery.

相比之下，瑞士有着300年的专业助产的传统。

Will the interest in midwifery outlast the pandemic?

对于助产的兴趣会延续到疫情之后吗？

Ethiopia had more pressing needs too, it turned out, than either midwifery or teaching.

事实证明，埃塞俄比亚也有比助产或教学更迫切的需求。

George Washington University Hospital introduced midwifery services a decade ago, and has since seen its c-section rate drop by nearly 6%.

乔治华盛顿大学医10年前推出了助产服务，此后剖腹产率下降了近6%。

There's no midwifery there, whichever place she's gone to; so I suppose she's out of employment, anyway.

无论她去哪里，那里都没有助产士；所以我想她无论如何都失业了。

Throughout the early 20th century, American Obstetricians continued to lobby policymakers to help ban midwifery and also prohibit abortions.

20 世纪初，产科医生不断游说政策制定者帮助禁止助产士并禁止堕胎。

Let's note The World Health Organization recommends midwifery care as an evidence-based approach to reducing maternal mortality.

请注意，世界卫生组织建议将助产护理作为降低孕产妇死亡率的循证方法。

How could she sleep after that nightmare of screaming pain and ignorant midwifery that hurt more than it helped? Why wasn't she dead?

以经历了这样一场梦魇般的剧痛和对接生程序一无所知，以致害多利少之后，她怎么还睡得着呢？她怎么没有死呢？

She takes refuge in the flat she inherited from her great-aunt and namesake, whose unconventional approach to midwifery has left a lasting mark.

她躲在她从同名姑姑那里继承的公寓里，姑姑对助产的非传统方法留下了持久的印记。

So the midwifery system, so midwives, is spectacularly well organized, it's very successful, and is one of the reasons that they have a reasonably low mortality rate.

因此，助产士系统，助产士，组织得非常好，非常成功，这也是他们死亡率相当低的原因之一。

Physicians and public health officials published studies claiming that midwifery led to quote " illiteracy, carelessness, and general filth." By the 1960s, the practice was almost completely obsolete in the US.

医生和公共卫生官员发表的研究称，助产士导致“文盲、粗心和普遍的污秽”。到了 20 世纪 60 年代，这种做法在几乎完全过时了。

For a moment her mind refused to accept the truth, but when realization finally came to her that Prissy knew no more about midwifery than she did, anger went over her like a flame.

最初她拒不承认事实，但是等到她终于明白百里茜在接生方面就像她一样一窃不通时，她的满腔怒火再也遏制不住了。

Chapters with titles as unpromising as " Cistern and Buckets" become some of the novel's most rewarding as Ishmael compares bailing out a sperm-whale's head to midwifery, which leads to reflections on Plato.

标题像“水箱和水桶”一样毫无希望的章节成为小说中最有价值的部分，因为伊斯梅尔将救出抹香鲸的头比作助产士，这引发了对柏拉图的反思。

What would she do? She knew less than nothing of midwifery. This was exactly the emergency she had been dreading for weeks. She had been counting on Prissy to handle the situation if no doctor should be available.

这正是几星期以来她一直在担心的紧急关头啊！她一直在指望着百里茜来应付这场面，如果到时找不到大夫的话。

And midwifery, decency seems to allot to them, though I am afraid the word midwife, in our dictionaries, will soon give place to accoucheur, and one proof of the former delicacy of the sex be effaced from the language.

助产士，体面的似乎分配给他们，虽然我担心助产士这词，在我们的词典中，很快就会让位于accoucheur，并且从语言中抹去以前性别的一证据。