Restricting oral fluid and food intake during labour.
Recently the Cochrane Collaboration, which maintains a set of databases providing systematic reviews of the scientific evidence related to various healthcare practices, published a review on
restricting oral fluid and food intake during labor.
According to the authors of the paper,
Restricting oral fluid and food intake during labour:
Not exact matches
Oral food and
fluids are
restricted for a few days (24 to 48 hours) so the digestive system and therefore the pancreas can rest.