Will AI replace Midwives?

Some of your tasks will be automated. People who use AI will have the edge.

Task exposure to today's AI

33/100

Moderate exposure

This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.

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Will AI replace Midwives?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 33% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary. The parts that stay human include: Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.; 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..

People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.

Which tasks AI can take on

The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.

TaskAutomatable

Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary. 65%

Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary. 53%

Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals. 50%

Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health. 20%

Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations. 12%

Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation. 12%

+ 30 more tasks (54% of the week) in the full test.

Your human edge

Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
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.

AI tools to try

Clinical documentation and transcription assistantsChatGPT / Claude for patient information (no patient data)Clinical decision support in your systems

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A 3-phase AI learning plan

Phase 1

Less documentation time

AI transcription and note drafting where your organisation allows it.
Patient information leaflets in plain language.
Never put identifiable patient data into public tools.

Project

Use AI to draft plain-language leaflets on labour signs, perineal care and infant feeding, then rewrite 10 de-identified antenatal notes with AI and log minutes saved per note.

Phase 2

Evidence and decision support

Guideline and literature summaries with AI, checked in the source.
Understand how decision-support tools reach their output.
Know the limits and liability.

Project

Ask AI to summarise national guidance on three clinical questions (e.g. GBS, post-dates induction, VBAC), verify every claim in the source guideline and record the error rate.

Phase 3

AI in care processes

Coordination, scheduling and handover with AI help.
Take part in your organisation's AI projects.
Teach colleagues safe use.

Project

Build an AI-assisted shift handover and caseload scheduling template for your midwifery team, trial it for 2 weeks, and train 5 colleagues on safe, data-protected use.

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