All this literature review is making me realize that their has been a decent amount of research - although in reality it is far from saturated - into labor interventions and their associated risk.

What does seem to be missing is the study of the need for a pediatric team at delivery, low initial Apgar scores, and what can increase the risk of these two. Most research seems to identify "no significant neonatal morbidity". A.k.a. "we may have broken the process, but we could fix it and baby was fine in the end".

Of course first thing to do is to prove why these initial moments are clinically important, which is hard to do in this day and age where most people have come to believe that this is part of the "normal" process.

I'm not sure this is within the scope of my dissertation. Again, it's something that I will start to set up to evaluate when I'm done. At this point, I remain on track to piggy back my dissertation on my advisor's existing research. But I can continue to work the literature and set things up to do it when I'm done.