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Well, duh! Fought doctors on this one. It’s amazing how much of child birth medical knowledge is based on poorly conducted and outdated studies. From the Times:

Maternity wards have long forbidden women in labor to eat or drink. Even when labor goes on and on, the bill of fare is usually limited to ice chips. Now a systematic review of existing studies has found no evidence that the restrictions have any benefit for most healthy women and their babies.