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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wow.

I'm an anesthesiologist, and I've had 5 kids, four by c-section.

Clear liquids, great!  Food?  You better be healthy, reasonably slim, with a normal labor pattern and a healthy baby.  Yeah, midwives are great, but they pass all the sick patients to the OB docs, that's why everything's so "awesome" with midwives.

If you're sick, the baby's sick, or you're obese, you're at higher risk of emergency C-section.  Your airway is swollen during pregnancy, 10x higher risk of complications during breathing tube placement for general anesthesia.  You will become very ill, or die, if chunks of food or stomach acid end up in your lungs.

off topic, for all the "natural" childbirth fans-- being induced with drugs (pitocin, cytotec) is NOT natural.  If you don't want an epidural, no problem, but going without painkillers is only part of the "natural" experience.  No medals are awarded for drug-free vaginal delivery; we all just want healthy babies!

I breastfed all my kids until 13 months, no formula, so don't give me crap for having 4 medically necessary c-sections.  I have some hippie cred!  :)[/quote]

This is quite the non-sensical, fear-mongering, nonsense.  What sickness are you talking about, exactly?  Whose airway might be swollen?  10x greater than what?  And most importantly, if food and stomach acid alike can cause illness or death, why restrict food?   What might actually be helpful in this conversation would be a review of the research, which shows that any aspiration at all occurs at about 10 in 1 million cases, and of those, only a very small fraction result in severe morbidity.  Instead, you write a bunch of condescending nonsense about "natural" birthers.  I wonder how often you - being an anesthesiologist and all - actually spend any time with women who are having an unmedicated childbirth.  It also doesn't sound like you personally have very much (if any?) experience with low-interventive birth.  [/quote]

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