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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“We’re All Hungry! You’re Keeping All Of Us From Our Lunches!”
“We’re all hungry! You’re keeping all of us from our lunches!” -OB to mother when the mother stated at 9CM that she was hungry.
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That is just rude. Is the doctor hooked up to an IV? Is the nurse on a fetal monitor? I would take it as a good sign if mom was hungry. No reason to be rude to her. Perhaps one of our midwives would like to comment on hunger and the immediacy of birth.
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I just asked my 7yr old what she would do if she was a nurse and someone was having a baby when it was her lunchtime. She said she would skip lunch. And when I asked what she would do if the mom was hungry she said she would bring them food in case it takes awhile for the baby to come out. I knew my kids were smart.
Now go get the mother something to eat.
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Dawn R Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 11:06 am (Quote)
Just asked my 5yo the same thing. He said he’d help the mommy and give her something to eat. Out of the mouths of babes!
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Jade Reply:
February 10th, 2012 at 11:53 pm (Quote)
My 5 year old DD and 7 year old DS both said they would skip lunch or nhave it after the mum had the baby and both said they would get mum something to eat. I elaborated on what they might get for mum, “something healthy and that fills you up for a long time”
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Mama Mirage had this to say,
Feb 8, 2012 @ 11:16 am (Quote)
This would have made me so mad! I gave birth 6 weeks ago and I was in labor for 3 days. All I could keep down was Ensure. I was SO HUNGRY. So I’m in the pool about 25 minutes before baby was born and between contractions I looked up at the clock and said outloud to my baby that she needed to hurry up because Mommy’s STARVING and the pizza place closes in half an hour. Yes she was born 6 minutes before the pizza place in our small town closes. So everyone’s oohing and ahhhing over the baby and I still haven’t birthed the placenta and the cord is pulsing and I latch the baby on to nurse and hollered over the excited chatter something to the effect of, “Well hurry up and order me a pizza! I’m STARVING here people! I thought we had a deal? Baby’s born before 9pm = I get pizza!” I think they thought I was joking. Until a minute later I told my husband that he had exactly 90 seconds before the pizza place closes and if I don’t get my pizza I’m gonna start bawling. I was so hungry I was actually tearing up when I said that and I think hew realized I was serious! LOL! We squeaked in and got the pizza which arrived in perfect time just after I’d finished birthing the placenta and was wrapped in towels and blankets in my rocking chair skin to skin with my newborn. If I’d been told at 9cm that snarky comment here, I’d have lost it. I hadn’t eaten in 3 days and could have eaten half an elephant. If I were in a hospital forbidden food and drink, with a snarkypants OB who could have eaten at any time while I was laboring and he/she dared to compare his desire for lunch to my forced starvation I’d have been sooooo upset!!!
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Alyson Miers Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 11:25 am (Quote)
hahaha! Your baby was more considerate than the grown-ups in the room!
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Jessica Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 11:46 am (Quote)
This reminds me of how I felt after I had my gallbladder removed. I had gallstones during pregnancy so in order to prevent the gallstone pain, after my delivery I still had to eat a very limited diet. A month later I had my surgery and my husband was waiting for me in the recovery room with a footlong sub with CHEESE even.
For 3 days before my labor (and then 10 days again before surgery) all I could eat without pain was plain white rice and apple juice. I would have killed for pizza. Except the PAIN it would have caused might have killed me.
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Heidi Reply:
February 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm (Quote)
Good for you for making it clear you NEEDED that pizza! My last labor went on a really long time, and I did eat throughout it. But the day the baby was born I did not get dinner. When my husband made plans for the doula to bring his dinner to the hospital, I said I needed food, too. But it got forgotten. When I had my baby at 10:48 p.m., the nurse said, “That’s great! You could still get something to eat tonight.” But it got forgotten. I had to settle for graham crackers, peanut butter in a plastic cup, saltines, and grape juice. Yikes.
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Serene Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 5:18 am (Quote)
Holy cow you kept Ensure down?!?? You my girl, are a GODDESS! My patients HATE it!
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Elizabet h S Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 9:49 am (Quote)
You’re a rock star! I was only in labor for 6.5 hours, and I kept telling everyone to get me a sausage biscuit. The nurse ordered it for me, but insisted I needed fruit and a bagel too. No ma’am, just get me a freakin’ biscuit!
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Alyson Miers had this to say,
Feb 8, 2012 @ 11:32 am (Quote)
Doc, go down the hall, get something from the vending machine, and eat. I’m sure Mama wants her doctor to be alert, focused and not hypoglycemic, but I’m also sure that since she is not allowed to eat, while doing hard work, no less, she is not going to shoulder the burden for your meal schedule. Get something in your stomach and come back when you feel better.
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Jessica had this to say,
Feb 8, 2012 @ 12:03 pm (Quote)
I had a client who was undergoing a scheduled induction and had a roomful of people. They actually got upset that I wouldn’t call and order pizza for them while my client was still in labor. First, the mother, the one doing all the work and with the least access to food and drink, isn’t going to go against her doctor’s orders not to eat. Second, I’m working for that mother, not her visitors in the room. Third, there’s the damn phone and there’s a phone book.
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ok, lets order a pizza and share it jack wagon! Hubby’s going to order the pizza and pay for it, and i’ll share it, but you better not try and stop me from eating you boogers!
luckily my labor with #2 was short and i ate before i left the house or i WOULD have gotten hungry, and the nurse very nicely looked away whe she saw my hubby feeding me bites of jello he’d confiscated out of the “snack room” they have at our hospital.
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Serene Reply:
February 9th, 2012 at 5:22 am (Quote)
ha you just reminded me! my first baby my dad bought fresh hot pizza to the hospy in his backpack (riding a BIKE), got 2* burns from it, shared with everyone. I wasnt allowed but couldnt care less cos I was vomiting… I hadnt eaten since 7pm Sunday night, had Jo at 11pm Monday night, wasnt fed afterwards just shunted to my room, ignored at breakfast, then my mum bought me in a HUGE turkey, camembert, avocado sub 9which I scoffed!) and promptly cot told off because “its bad for the milk if I eat too much fat”. I was 60kg (125lb), dude WTF??
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This is totally rude, unprofessional, and uncalled for…and unfortunately expected. I brought about 4 dozen cookies to my last birth specifically for the staff to eat (I brought real ‘food’ for me), because I knew if I had a long labor everyone would get cranky and snappy. Of course it’s only something I had to worry about with ‘professionals’, the ‘lay’ midwives of my 1st birth brought food for *me*, and went out and bought bananna bread when I craved it half way through labor.
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Jadzia@Toddlerisms had this to say,
Feb 8, 2012 @ 2:43 pm (Quote)
Yeah, I think this would make me ragey. Because labor is akin to running a MARATHON, and after a few hours I am, believe you me, in no mood to be hearing about the meal somebody else is planning to eat. (And after the birth? Let’s just say you don’t want to get between me and any food in the vicinity.)
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Oh. That’s terrible.
You’re hungry too!? And here I am all cozy with an IV full of tasty saline and a cup full of delicious ice chips. I didn’t even offer to share, how rude of me! Nurse!! Grab an IV and ice chips for the doctor! There you go sweetie, I’d hate for you to go hungry during this grueling ordeal…
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I don’t like the fact that women are denied food while in labor AT ALL, but this comment did strike me as a joke. I mean, if she’s at 9 cm, there’s really not anything she can do to hurry it up. I think it’s a joke. Nonetheless, I *would* not consider this funny at all if I was 9 cm and hungry!
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Regina Lynn had this to say,
Feb 9, 2012 @ 11:10 am (Quote)
This is my submission, from my first doula client. She’d been saying she was hungry all morning, since they’d broken her water at 4 cm. and I offered some granola bars behind the nurse’s back, but she didn’t want to break the rules. The doctor’s comment was so completely uncalled for, even though they expected she would have had her baby a long time already. It is the last thing the mother remembers before going into the funk of labor land and desperation and finally, c-section meds. 
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Then GO. GO stuff your face with that double cheeseburger with large fries. GO eat if it’s that important to you.
I’ll do better without you anyway.
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