Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.

“Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.” is a core task performed by Midwives. Among the occupation's 36 rated tasks, workers place it 34th by importance (#3 most important). About 93% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Administer emergency medical treatment. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations. · importance 4.7
• Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments. · importance 4.7
• Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health. · importance 4.6
• Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation. · importance 4.6
• Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns. · importance 4.6
• Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth. · importance 4.6
• Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories. · importance 4.5
• Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary. · importance 4.5
• Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions. · importance 4.4
• Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary. · importance 4.4
• Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications. · importance 4.4
• Suture perineal lacerations. · importance 4.4
• Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals. · importance 4.4
• Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Midwives page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17486,
  title  = {Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17486}
}