Will AI replace Midwives?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
25/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 43% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 40% of the work
What the job involves
Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(15)
- Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.
- 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.
- Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.
- Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.
and 10 more
Out of reach(21)
- Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.
- 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.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.
and 16 more
Also called
Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) · Lay Midwife · CPM · Birth Center Midwife · Certified Direct-Entry Midwife · Homebirth Midwife · Licensed and Certified Midwife · Licensed Certified Professional Midwife
Related jobs
- Nurse Midwives29/100
- Pediatricians, General34/100
- Registered Nurses39/100
- Nurse Practitioners32/100
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists30/100
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics