Today, we are going to explore brand new updates to the Evidence Based Birth® Signature Article, Evidence on: Eating during Labor! We talk about four major topics:

1. Nutritional needs during labor
2. New info on gestational or pre-gestational diabetes and eating during labor
3. New research on anesthesiology and its relationship to eating and drinking during labor, and
4. Finally, how body mass index and fatphobia relate to anesthesia concerns, and what that has to do with eating during labor. Content Warning: pregnancy-related death, anesthesia-related death, fatphobia and anesthesia, microaggressions related to health care workers' reaction to ethnic foods Resources:

• Refer to previous podcast episode: EBB 198 - Evidence on Eating & Drinking (linked on blog post below)
• Check out our Signature Article… Evidence on: Eating and Drinking during Labor at
• Check out our Signature Article... Evidence on: IV Fluids on Labor
• Check out our Signature Article... Evidence on: Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes
• Fat Phobia and It's Racist Past and Present: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/893006538
• For a full list of scientific references, see the blog post that goes along with this episode