Midwife
A midwife — present at the threshold of birth — often touches a difficult passage with a narrow escape, or the revealing of secrets. The dream may ask what is being brought painfully into being in your life, and whether the one attending the delivery is helping it through or about to expose what you'd kept hidden.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for midwife, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see a midwife in your dreams, signifies unfortunate sickness with a narrow escape from death.
For a young woman to dream of such a person, foretells that distress and calumny will attend her.
Fontaine, 1862
To see a midwife denotes revealing of secrets; to the sick, it is death.