When do you start giving your patients ice, sips, clear liquids after a csection? Our docs put in orders to "progress diet as tolerated", but that's a standard order that doesn't have much bearing on what the nurses on our unit and on the MBU actually do. (Most of our patients have spinals with either morphine PCA or Duramorph afterwards.) I just read in the latest AJN (I think) that auscultating bowel sounds is pretty much useless as an assessment of meaningful bowel function.
