Ou of all the parts of the body you could look at what made you want to look at labour in women.

Question: Ou of all the parts of the body you could look at what made you want to look at labour in women.
- Keywords:
  body,
  labour,
  pregnancy,
  pregnant,
  women
Asked by cochrane to Gemma on 9 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by aimdon, remytaylor, keeley, 08fosmana, palmerl, egibbs.
- Gemma Sharp answered on 9 Jun 2011:
  
  Hey,
  
  This is a really good question.
  
  Well, I guess all of the body is really interesting, so I could’ve chosen any organ/system and found a lot to study, but I am most interested in labour in women because I remember being really shocked when I first found out that after all these years and all the medical breakthroughs we’ve made, we STILL don’t know why babies are born at the end of 9 months.
  
  I started reading about it (as part of my Masters degree), and the more I read the more interested I became.
  
  I think all medical research is important if it’s going to help people stay healthy, but I think making sure that pregnant women give birth on time to healthy babies is particularly important, because the birth of a child should be a happy time for parents, and if babies are born healthy they’re more likely to grow up healthy.

Question: Ou of all the parts of the body you could look at what made you want to look at labour in women.