Midwife
A practitioner who attends births — patient, expert support through a passage the body must do itself.
A midwife in a dream is the dream's image of patient, expert support through a passage the body has to do itself. The midwife does not give birth; the midwife knows the process and stays with it. The dream brings the midwife when something new in your life — a child, a piece of work, a returned self — is being delivered through a hard, irreducible process, and the helpful presence beside you is the one who knows how this particular passage goes. A midwife trusted is the dream telling you the company through the delivery is good. A midwife absent is the dream marking that the passage is being attempted alone when it did not have to be.