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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]

If you're an anesthesiologist perhaps you can tell me why you are ignoring all the research?  If you haven't seen it, here are some links:

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7961689.stm[/url]  (News article about a Kings College London study reported in the BMJ that found there is no difference in rates of vomiting between women who have or have not eaten)
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10507677[/url]  (research study found "Research does not support restricting food and fluids in labor to prevent gastric aspiration. Restricting oral intake during labor has unexpected negative outcomes."  Also stated that the rate of aspiration was about 7 in 10 million births.)
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8410348[/url]  (Literature review re eating and drinking during labor)
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585208[/url] (Review of evidence surrounding oral intake during labor - "Nurses in intrapartum settings are encouraged to work in multidisciplinary teams to revise policies that are unnecessarily restrictive regarding oral intake during labor among low-risk women")

Other news articles:

[url]http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20100120/eating-drinking-may-be-ok-during-labor [/url]
[url]http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2010/08/hospital_policy_of_withholding.html[/url]

This is what I found in a 2 minute search.  So, now please tell us why you don't practice evidence based medicine?  Or feel free to direct me to some recent research that disproves the above.  (And not the 1946 study that is what most hospitals policies are based on).[/quote]

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