EBB 198 - Evidence on Eating and Drinking During Labor

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, we're going to take a deep dive into the research evidence on eating and drinking during labor!

In this episode, I talk about the history of anesthesia and food and oral fluids during labor— starting in the 1940s and moving forward to current times. I also talk about Nothing by Mouth (NPO) policies in hospitals, and discuss how researchers have reframed the topic for birthing people today as one of bodily choice. I also talk about whether or not people should be able to eat once they experience medical interventions such as an epidural (because many hospitals around the world still forbid food once you have an epidural!)

Content warning: In this episode, I talk about maternal death and labor complications.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the research evidence on
0:05.0	eating and drinking during labor. Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is
0:10.6	Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Burn.
0:15.0	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:23.7	As a reminder this information is not medical advice.
0:27.2	C.eebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:32.1	Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence-based Birth Podcast.
0:38.0	My name is Rebecca Decker, pronouns she-her and I will be your host for today's episode.
0:43.0	Before I get into the evidence, I wanted to make a quick announcement.
0:46.0	Over the past week, our professional membership for birth workers here at Evidence-based Birth
0:51.0	has been on sale for 20% off and the sale ended yesterday but I was never
0:56.4	able to announce the sale on the podcast while it was happening so we are doing a special
1:01.1	extension of the 20% off sale for podcast listeners only.
1:05.6	We only offer the sale price twice per year.
1:08.3	So if you're interested in becoming a pro member at EBB,
1:11.7	this is your chance. Just go to EIBBirth.com
1:15.0	slash membership and when you register use the coupon code fall 21 sale in all
1:21.2	capital letters that's fall then the number 21 then sale in all caps.
1:27.0	We'll keep that coupon code open for podcast listeners for the next two days only.
1:32.0	I'll also post a link to the membership and the coupon
1:35.1	code and the show notes for this episode. All right in this episode we're going to
1:39.6	take a deep dive into the research evidence on eating and drinking during labor. I have some
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