Predicting how and when a pregnant woman will deliver her fetus has always been a problem for the clinician, and, consequently, there has been little progress made in preventing poor outcomes from pregnancies that deliver too soon or too late. In the opinion of the author, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, rethinking labour within a biomechanical framework and studying it like an engineering problem could be a promising approach to unlocking the mysteries of labour.

中文翻译：

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临产和分娩：临床医生对生物力学问题的看法。


预测孕妇如何以及何时分娩一直是临床医生面临的一个问题，因此，在预防因分娩过早或过晚而导致的不良后果方面几乎没有取得任何进展。在作者（一位母胎医学专家）看来，在生物力学框架内重新思考分娩并像工程问题一样研究它可能是解开分娩之谜的一种有前途的方法。