My wife gave birth to our second child today. We now have a healthy little girl in the family. Her name is Ava.
So, Erica - my wife - is at the mercy of hospital menus for the next few days. And let me tell you, they leave a lot to be desired.
We asked for a gluten-free lunch. We got vegetable soup (with excessive salt), a gluten-free salad and cheese sandwich, a fruit plate and a container of orange juice. Nothing but carbs. No protein and no fat. How the hell is my wife supposed to produce milk and recover eating that crap?
Next was dinner. Erica ordered from the menu picking GF options. The main was a great chicken fillet and veg dish (no complaints there) but they served it with more veg soup, another fruit plate (all other desserts were not GF) and a bread roll. A bread roll! Not a GF bread roll either.
Holy crap. How can people in a hospital environment make such stupid and fundamentally flawed nutritional decisions?
Luckily Erica is not Coeliac, she chooses not to eat gluten so the possible minor contamination won't see her in trouble. However, the truth is that she should not be exposed to this at all. If she had a peanut allergy there's no way peanuts would be allowed anywhere near her by staff.
So, when will the medical fraternity learn that nutrition is the base of all health?
interesting read. you hear so much about how bad hospital food is, but when they don't understand the fundamental concepts it's pretty worrying isn't it.
ReplyDeleteit's like when you see hospital staff suckin on cigarettes on their lunch breaks!
Hey Adam, congratulations on the birth of Ava.
ReplyDeleteI went through the same problem when my wife gave birth 6 months ago.