CPM Certified Professional Midwife

Answer: A - Diet should be liquid and B. If operative intervention is a possibility, she should be kept on nothing by mouth

The first stage of labor starts from the onset of true labor pain and ends with full dilation of the cervix. In the first stage of labor, dietary advice is the following: 1) diet should be liquid; 2) food and oral fluids should be withheld in active labor; 3) if operative intervention is a possibility, patient should be kept on nothing by mouth; and 4) foods rich in protein and lipid should be avoided.