In all my years as a midwife I have worked mostly in hospitals which favour early food and drink after CS and rare are the problems. I have found that those women who do have a problem with their gut tend not to want food/drink. I guess it is her body saying it is not ready yet?
Cheers
Judy

Jen Semple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Look what I found on the Cochrane Consumer website http://www.informedhealthonline.org//item.aspx?review=003516

The medical tradition of withholding food and drink after surgery generally came into practice without proof of benefit, and there is a lot of variety in practice. Some practitioners and hospitals let women have food and fluid within a few hours of a caesarean section, while others do not allow anything for 24 hours or more. Yet, nutrition may be important for recovery and wound healing. A Cochrane review found that there is not enough evidence about the effects of different policies on food and drink after caesarean section. However, early food and drink has not been shown to have any disadvantage - and may even speed recovery. Most of the significant differences found in the trials favoured early food and drink. More research is needed to exclude the possibility of rare adverse effects of early access to food and fluids, and to see what impact these policies have on women's satisfaction, fatigue and breastfeeding. Above summary by Informed Health Online
Published: Thursday, 5 February 2004



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