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Or, you eat the bagel mid labor, and your baby/“fetus” crashes and you need an emergency C-section and you are at high risk for general anesthesia because you ate the bagel. Your goal was actually to have a baby. Sorry, us doctors always worry about the worst possible outcomes.

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Funny how this only applies to people in labour though. Presumably lots of other patients need emergency surgery and general anaesthesia but no one told them not to eat before their car crash or whatever it was that led to the need for surgery. The no food rule is not routine in UK hospitals and frankly sounds a bit barbaric.

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Yes, I was encouraged to eat during labour in Australia to keep my strength up, strangely enough, not routine in any country that doesn't have such an insanely high rate of medical professionals being sued.

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FWIW I was not given this rule either in my American hospital (a very good one in Massachusetts) - I agree it’s a bit barbaric.

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