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?
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JudyJen
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
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Look what I found on the Cochrane Consumer