Early Initiation of Oral Feeding Versus Traditional Feeding Post Caesarean Section

Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women included in this study were those booked for elective or emergency caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia, for various indications from antenatal clinic, antenatal ward, labour ward and obstetric emergency unit who met inclusion criteria and consented to the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Women with prolonged obstructed labour. * Women with immunosuppression or HIV/AIDS * Women with eclampsia. * Women with medical complications of pregnancy such as: * Sickle cell anaemia, uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension. * Women who received general anaesthesia * Women with previous history of bowel surgery * Women on drugs that can cause constipation * Women with previous history of chronic constipation