How do you experiment with labour in women? Do you ever have to observe a woman in labour to get your science results?

Question: How do you experiment with labour in women? Do you ever have to observe a woman in labour to get your science results? Also, what would be your biggest aim to achieve in your science career?
- Keywords:
  career,
  labour,
  scientist
Asked by green to Gemma on 16 Jun 2011.
- Gemma Sharp answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  Good question, thanks 🙂
  
  No, I don’t ever have to observe a woman in labour to get my results. I don’t think I’d learn much… just that it hurts and women don’t like having a scientist in the room watching them while they’re in labour probably!
  
  Instead, I get my results from studying cells and chunks of tissue taken from the muscle layer of the wombs of women. Some chunks are from women who aren’t pregnant, some are from women who are but not in labour, and some are from women who are pregnant and in labour (the chunks are taken during Caesarian operations).
  
  The thing I most what to achieve from my career is to find out how labour is triggered, and help stop women going into birth prematurely 🙂

Question: How do you experiment with labour in women? Do you ever have to observe a woman in labour to get your science results? Also, what would be your biggest aim to achieve in your science career?