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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear a follow up on this topic. Wouldn't it be fun to know how many of us ate or wanted food at all once we were actually in labor? I feel like so many pregnant women think in such extremes. With my first baby, i went to a breastfeeding class and they asked how many people were going to have a "natural" childbirth with no drugs. The entire class of about 20 people, except my friend and I raised their hands enthusiastically. Of those, 18 who insisted on no drugs, i would LOVE to know how many actually followed through on that wish. No judgement either way, but how can you be so sure of what you will want before you are there? The thing is, you just have no idea what will happen until you are in the moment so relax, dont sweat it and go with the flow. Otherwise, you will waste a lot of time and energy worrying for nothing. [/quote]

i ate dinner [lasagna!] at 6:30pm, water broke at 8pm, gave birth around 7am.  headed to hospital quickly because of gbs status.  don't think i ate at hospital, but i did pack snacks.  drank gatorade [it's for marathons, right?] and then water because i was sick of the sugar in the gatorade.  i really didn't want food, but just wanted to know i could have it if i wanted.  midwife pre-approved it, and i wasn't about to ask the nurses about hospital policy.

had my natural birth with no drugs, as intended.  also breastfed to 22 months, which was not intended.

guess this makes me a hippie, but you wouldn't know it from looking.[/quote]

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