CLEVELAND, Ohio – The last thing on April Baer’s mind while awaiting the birth of her first child was where her next meal was coming from.
A good thing, since she wouldn’t have gotten anything to eat even if she had asked.
Like most women who deliver in a hospital, Baer — who gave birth to baby Stella in early June — didn’t get a morsel of food to munch during her six-hour labor.
“It wasn’t really an issue for me,” says Baer, a former WCPN FM/90.3 reporter/producer who now works at Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland.