1.   Traditionally, local midwives would deliver all the babies in the area.

2.   Under these circumstances, the local midwife was consulted much more often for medicines to conceive than for those to abort.

3.   Hanafiah said the mother was originally a patient of a local midwife who referred her to the local hospital after it was found that the fetus was deformed.

4.   The infants died minutes after a local midwife delivered them inside huts made of clay walls and straw roofs on Thursday and Friday in Rangpur district.