Re: epidural and food
From: Ina May Gaskin (midwifeim@earthlink.net)
Wed Sep 13 09:09:55 2006
Mine didn't.
Ina May
On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:41 AM, Joe Cutchin wrote:
> Nonsense. I thought digestion stopped with onset labor. Maybe an
> ole tale. Joe C
>
> Andrew Folley wrote:
>
>> All of a sudden our anesthesiologists are becoming very strict
>> about not providing and epidural to our laboring patients if they
>> have eaten any solid foods in the preceding 8 hours. Their
>> argument is fear of a high epidural and aspiration etc. Is this a
>> common practice across the country???
>> Are most or our OB-gyns and midwives keeping patients on clear
>> liquids only in labor??
>>
>>> From: "Jane Peterson" <ApricotRex@comcast.net>
>>> Reply-To: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net
>>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>>> Subject: RE: Second stage
>>> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:18:18 -0500
>>>
>>> I seldom see the 2 hour or even 100 minute second stage that is
>>> supposedly average. But I'm counting from spontaneous pushing,
>>> so maybe
>>> that's the difference.
>>>
>>> Jane
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
>>> Efrain
>>> Ramirez
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:10 PM
>>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>>> Subject: Second stage
>>>
>>> My "second stages" in primgravids are becoming "shorter -- FD -
>>> is not
>>> the begining of the second stage - does anyone agree?
>>>
>>> Ef
>>>
>>> --
>>> " The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>>> it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>>>
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