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

Episode 233 - Updates on Eating during Labor

Evidence Based Birth®

Episode 233 - Updates on Eating during Labor