When are you going to learn that women labor better when you feed them rather than starve them?

When I had an emergency D&C under general anesthesia the anesthesiologist didn’t bat an eye when I told him I had been eating lots of iron rich foods because I had been loosing lots of blood. It wasn’t an issue at all.

It concerns me that the hospital allows crazy-talking-to-themselves hobos to dress as anesthesiologists.

(That, on top of this person using outdated and unfounded “information” spat out there as a cover in case -they- screw up their job to the point of making Mom nauseous.)

I hope the mom puked on the anesthesiologist.

Because it’s my smart ass nature and I can’t keep my mouth shut, I so would have said, “Actually, that’s not a true. Recent studies have refuted everything you just said.”

When are you going to learn to keep your mouth shut and do your job??

Even the staff fed me during labor. Granted.. it wasn’t yummy or anything, pretty bland actually..but it was food! Not to mention I ate before I left for the hospital.

Aspiration typically happens (in the rare cases when it happens) due to a mistake by the anesthesiologist. Therefore it makes perfect sense to some anesthesiologists that every woman should be starved during the hardest work of her life just in case she requires medication and just in case the anesthesiologist happens to be incompetent.

“When are you going to run a marathon without hydration? Cause I’ll labor without food when that happens”

well, ya know, maybe they have a point… after all we taught the park goers not to feed the ducks, so why can’t “we” learn not to feed pregnant laboring women folks. they are just stupid animals to be cared for too, right?

/sarcasm

Yeah, if we feed them, they may have the stamina to keep going and not need YOUR “services”.

Um, doesn’t the research indicate that even if a person had no food in her stomach (which is physiologically nearly impossible), the amount of stomach acid naturally present would itself be enough to cause aspiration pneumonia? In other words, shouldn’t this doc STFU and do his job?

Um, when we forget how to intubate women when they get general anaesthesia during emergency c-sections? (Gee, looks like a certain anaesthesiologist who’s talking out of his khyber either is mortally offended at a mother that just puked on the floor – it happens all the time on both full and empty stomachs, get over it…, dude – or didn’t learn proper emergency procedures in med school…)

It occurs to me that his “we” is actually a passive-aggressive remark directed to the labor nurses and possibly the obstetrician. So this anesthesiologist isn’t just being rude to the mom — he’s being rude to his colleagues and getting the mom with the backlash. Nice, huh? Because that “when are we going to learn” is condescending primarily to the nursing staff, who presumably “fed” the laboring mom. THe mom herself never factored into the anesthesiologist’s thoughts, much the way you might say to a child “When are we going to learn not to put Pepsi in the house plants?” and we don’t really care about the house plant as much as correcting the child.

OK have to KIND OF agree with the anaesthetist on this one. It is downright DANGEROUS to give an anaesthetic, even a spinal block, to someone within 6 hours of eating. Thats why trauma anaesthetics are so frickin expensive and anaesthetists are specialists within their specialty… BUT that said, how about just not doing unnecaessarians instead…? I am a diabetic. There was no way in HELL I was going through even 3 hours of labour without eating and my doc wasnt dumb enough to argue…

That’s only a problem if she’s going to have a C-section. But she’s working harder than she’s probably ever worked in her life. She just might need some energy!!!

That said, I ate a little (yogurt and a pear) during the early stages of my first labor, and threw it up later. But at least they (midwives in a birth center) let me eat when I wanted to. Because I’m sure some of it got digested!