Tom, here’s my question. How can a “male” be a “midwife”? It doesn’t seem right that those two words should be used together. Females are wives, males are husbands! Need a new word. Maybe a “midmale”? Just a thought, from somesome who probably shouldn’t be thinking about these things after being up for 19 hours.
…”Person”, I bet would be the keyword.
In this case the politically-correctsters would surely call for this position to be known as a “Mid-Person”.
I once worked at a hardware store where the landlord of the property demanded that we change a sign out front touting “Eerything For The Handy Man” to “…For The Handy PERSON”, or risk losing our lease.
The lease was up in another 8 months anyway, so we departed on that note. It was really fun !
…And we ended up in a much nicer building.
“Mid” in old English means “with”, probably from the German “mit” which also means “with.”
The midwife is someone who is “with the wife” at her crucial hour.
So technically a guy can be a midwife.
But I’ll grant it sounds very odd.
I’m “mid” you dere all right, Mark …(And Dorcas)
And I hope dis interchange clears up da question for Tea. A male midwife is simply a male person mit der means to help der wife mid der baybeee… Hmmmm? Huhhhh? Why can’t we just call him a “middie” ?
I was “mid” Betsy most of the time when our kids were born. My title was “Husband”. I don’t mind the title or the work except for the “mid” work. Hardest job I ever did and glad it’s over. My sympathies to all the Husbands who yet have the “mid” work to too. All I can say is to try and find some good drugs to dull your senses.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Tom, here’s my question. How can a “male” be a “midwife”? It doesn’t seem right that those two words should be used together. Females are wives, males are husbands! Need a new word. Maybe a “midmale”? Just a thought, from somesome who probably shouldn’t be thinking about these things after being up for 19 hours.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:55 am
I was thinking somewhere along the lines of cross-dresser…….
February 24th, 2007 at 1:00 am
You deal with that issue the same way you deal with what you call a female mailman.
Or a female husbandman.
February 24th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
“Midhusband” of course.
February 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
…”Person”, I bet would be the keyword.
In this case the politically-correctsters would surely call for this position to be known as a “Mid-Person”.
I once worked at a hardware store where the landlord of the property demanded that we change a sign out front touting “Eerything For The Handy Man” to “…For The Handy PERSON”, or risk losing our lease.
The lease was up in another 8 months anyway, so we departed on that note. It was really fun !
…And we ended up in a much nicer building.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:30 am
“Mid” in old English means “with”, probably from the German “mit” which also means “with.”
The midwife is someone who is “with the wife” at her crucial hour.
So technically a guy can be a midwife.
But I’ll grant it sounds very odd.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:03 am
So, then, it follows that a midwife is one who aids a wife who is midchild.
That’s very weird.
Dumb even.
Oh well.
February 25th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I’m “mid” you dere all right, Mark …(And Dorcas)
And I hope dis interchange clears up da question for Tea. A male midwife is simply a male person mit der means to help der wife mid der baybeee… Hmmmm? Huhhhh? Why can’t we just call him a “middie” ?
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 am
My question is: why would a male WANT to be a midwife?
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:51 am
I was “mid” Betsy most of the time when our kids were born. My title was “Husband”. I don’t mind the title or the work except for the “mid” work. Hardest job I ever did and glad it’s over. My sympathies to all the Husbands who yet have the “mid” work to too. All I can say is to try and find some good drugs to dull your senses.
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
A fellow student of mine at SMBI calls his fiance his midwife.
August 1st, 2011 at 10:18 am
my niece is studying to be a “midwife” and a term used for male midwives is aquacher though nt sho of the spelling.