# Midwives

> Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.

- **SOC code:** 29-9099.01
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-9099-01
- **Also known as:** Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Homebirth Midwife, Licensed Certified Professional Midwife, Licensed Midwife (LM), Birth Center Midwife, Certified Direct-Entry Midwife, Lay Midwife, Licensed Direct Entry Midwife
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
- Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
- Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.
- Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
- Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.
- Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.
- Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
- Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.
- Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.

**Emerging tasks** (O*NET):
- Test patients for sexually transmitted infections.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Customer and Personal Service _(knowledge)_
- Medicine and Dentistry _(knowledge)_
- Psychology _(knowledge)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(transferable_skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(essential_skill)_
- Monitoring _(essential_skill)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Problem Sensitivity _(ability)_
- Deductive Reasoning _(ability)_
- Inductive Reasoning _(ability)_
- Therapy and Counseling _(knowledge)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Psychology _(Specialized Skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Inductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Deductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- Information Ordering _(Specialized Skill)_
- Biology _(Specialized Skill)_
- Complex Problem Solving _(Common Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Epic Systems _(hot technology, in demand)_
- Extensible markup language XML _(hot technology)_
- MEDITECH software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft PowerPoint _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- AS/400 Database
- Email software
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Private Practice
- Web browser software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 50th percentile (Moderate) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.):** 55th percentile (Moderate) — source: felten_aioe.
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 49th percentile (Moderate) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 46th percentile (Moderate) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Remote-capable (Dingel–Neiman):** no — task structure, not who actually works remote.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 3.6% growth (About average); 2.6k annual openings; 41.7k → 43.1k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $64,030; 36,970 employed.

## How people actually use AI here

Anthropic Economic Index — measured AI conversations mapped to this occupation's tasks:

- **Automation vs augmentation:** 13% automation, 69% augmentation (usage-weighted).
- **Autonomy median:** 4.0 (higher = AI acts more independently).
- **Dominant collaboration mode:** learning.

**Tasks most handed to AI here:**
- Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods. _(3.0% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children. _(2.5% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, and breastfeeding. _(1.6% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs and hydrotherapy. _(0.7% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, and retarded fetal growth. _(0.6% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Provide postpartum patients with contraceptive and family planning information. _(0.4% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health. _(0.4% of measured AI use)_

**Example prompts (honest phrasings of the tasks above — starting points, not endorsed instructions):**
- Help me provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.
- Help me recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.
- Help me provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, and breastfeeding.
- Help me treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs and hydrotherapy.
- Help me identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, and retarded fetal growth.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE
- **Dingel & Neiman (2020)** (dingel-neiman-workathome) — academic. https://github.com/jdingel/DingelNeiman-workathome

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-9099-01_