One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse".    From Wordnik.com.  [la mère porteuse - French Word-A-Day] Reference

(One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse").    From Wordnik.com.  [la mère porteuse - French Word-A-Day] Reference

She is a skilled accoucheuse, and among the negroes of the Cossetot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference

The child is received into the lap of the accoucheuse whether the mother is in the erect position or lying down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The uterine globe is then firmly pressed and kneaded, whilst the accoucheuse makes more or less firm traction upon the cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

She is permitted to rest upon her knees or feet, according to the peculiar notion of the accoucheuse, or according to attending circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

The delivery of the placenta is expected at once after the birth of the child and without further trouble; in order to facilitate speedy expulsion the accoucheuse and assistants resort to certain manipulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

If the case has been an easy one, and the woman has not been raised from her couch, the first efforts to obtain the placenta are made as she lies there, the accoucheuse, making gentle but tolerable firm traction on the cord with one hand, manipulates the uterine globe with the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference