baby-catcher
An informal, affectionate slang term for either a midwife or an obstetrician — medical professionals who assist in delivering babies.
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An informal, affectionate slang term for either a midwife or an obstetrician — medical professionals who assist in delivering babies. The term is typically used with warmth rather than disrespect, capturing the hands-on, immediate nature of the work. More common in informal speech among healthcare workers, new parents, and birth communities than in formal medical settings. It can also be used humorously in everyday conversation to reference the delivery role. Both senses (midwife and OB) are in circulation.
Her baby-catcher had delivered over two thousand babies and made the whole room feel calm the moment she walked in.
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Informal slang with two related senses: a midwife who assists with births, or an obstetrician who delivers babies. The catching imagery vividly captures the moment of delivery. Used affectionately or humorously by people in and around medical and birthing contexts. Neither derogatory nor highly clinical — it sits in the warm informal middle ground that medical professionals and families often share.
She told everyone her midwife was the best baby-catcher in the county and had delivered three of her siblings.
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(slang) A midwife.
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(slang) An obstetrician.
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