Episode 233 - Updates on Eating during Labor

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, we are going to explore brand new updates to the Evidence Based Birth® Signature Article, Evidence on: Eating during Labor! We talk about four major topics:

Nutritional needs during labor
New info on gestational or pre-gestational diabetes and eating during labor
New research on anesthesiology and its relationship to eating and drinking during labor, and
Finally, how body mass index and fatphobia relate to anesthesia concerns, and what that has to do with eating during labor.

Content Warning: pregnancy-related death, anesthesia-related death, fatphobia and anesthesia, microaggressions related to health care workers' reaction to ethnic foods

Resources:

Refer to previous podcast episode: EBB 198 - Evidence on Eating & Drinking (linked on blog post below)
Check out our Signature Article… Evidence on: Eating and Drinking during Labor at
Check out our Signature Article... Evidence on: IV Fluids on Labor
Check out our Signature Article... Evidence on: Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes
Fat Phobia and It’s Racist Past and Present: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/893006538
For a full list of scientific references, see the blog post that goes along with this episode

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about some important
0:03.9	updates we've made to the evidence-based birth signature article on eating and
0:08.3	drinking during labor.
0:09.4	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my
0:18.1	PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based
0:24.8	information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:29.5	As a reminder this information is not medical advice.
0:33.0	See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the Evidence- Space Birth Podcast. My name is Dr.
0:44.4	Rebecca Decker, pronouns she her and I will be your teacher for today's episode.
0:49.4	Today I'm so excited to bring some brand new evidence-based information to you all about
0:54.1	eating and drinking during labor. Earlier this year we published our first
0:58.6	podcast on this topic it was episode 198 on eating and drinking during labor and that
1:04.8	episode was based on one of our signature articles that we published a long
1:09.8	time ago and last updated in 2017. And then this spring after that podcast came out, we did a
1:16.6	brand new literature review so that Anna Bertoni, our research consultant at EBB and I could work together to provide a research update on eating during labor.
1:27.0	Before we get started, I wanted to let you know that we will be talking about pregnancy-related death and anesthesia-related death. We'll also be talking
1:35.2	about fat phobia and anesthesia and microaggressions related to health care workers
1:40.7	reaction to quote ethnic foods. So let's get started with
1:46.3	the updated research on this topic. Are you ready? Let's go. So first of all I wanted to showcase the fact that eating food and drinking
1:56.3	fluids during labor is normal or physiological. So I wanted to start off by
2:01.5	editing the signature article in this topic to kind of show off the normalness of intake during labor and we expanded that initial introductory section.
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