Laughing Gas? For Labor?

Hey yall - I just got done birthing #3 this morning..

Labor was progressing so fast when I came in that I didn't have any time to get an epi so instead I was given some nitrous oxide (laughing gas) to help take the edge off those horrible contractions..

I think it did it's job for the most part but DAMN was I loopy during and afterwards.. lol - I'll have to post some of the crazy things I said while under the influence later in my labor story but..

Until yesterday i'd never heard of it as a pain mitigation method.. Anyone else had the stuff (and NOT @ the dentist)?

oh wow congrats!!!!!

ive never heard of it but it sounds like fun. lol. It would make the whole birthing experience a lot more amusing.

Congrats on your new baby hun. I have never heard of laughing gas for labor but heck if it works I will try it.

Quoting The OG ~*~HautéMama~*~:“ Hey yall - I just got done birthing #3 this morning.. Labor was progressing so fast when I came in ... [snip!] ... but.. Until yesterday i'd never heard of it as a pain mitigation method.. Anyone else had the stuff (and NOT @ the dentist)?”

Congrats! Never heard about the laughing gas though

I have never heard of them useing it i thought around here that if you didnt get anything oh well you were on your own lol. But i had a csection with the last one and if ya want to see loopy take a crap load of morphine lol thats loopy. And congrats on the baby

Congrats on the new munchkin!
About the laughing gas...I didn't know they still did that. My grandma was given laughing gas 51 years ago when my dad was born. She still tells stories about how loopy it made her.  

Yaaaay! Congrats!

Nitrous is fun! Not that I would know or anything... 

Quoting The OG ~*~HautéMama~*~:“ Hey yall - I just got done birthing #3 this morning.. Labor was progressing so fast when I came in ... [snip!] ... but.. Until yesterday i'd never heard of it as a pain mitigation method.. Anyone else had the stuff (and NOT @ the dentist)?”

hey cool. i want that!

Quoting The OG ~*~HautéMama~*~:“ Hey yall - I just got done birthing #3 this morning.. Labor was progressing so fast when I came in ... [snip!] ... but.. Until yesterday i'd never heard of it as a pain mitigation method.. Anyone else had the stuff (and NOT @ the dentist)?”

Over here in the uk they give it to almost every woman in labour. It didn't wrk for me, it made me feel stoned lol, then i was sick. I said some pretty stupid things when i was takin it lol x

Never heard of it, but Congrats!!

was it in a pretty balloon???????

oh....wait.... you arn't 14 and you arn't in the middle of a cow field w/techno blasting for the turn tables 10 feet away....... sorry, hs flash back! LMAO


Congrats, give Storry a snuggle for Piper and me!

Congrats, but no I've never heard of that!

congratulations  

my brother was given strawberry laughing gas when he had a minor surgery, the snipped underneath his tongue to help aide with his.. speech impediment I guess? he had trouble pronouncing R's properly... so not quite dental and I know it's totally different from labor lol but I guess it can be used to dull multiple kinds of pain.

years ago in the US they always gave women nitrous oxide for labor esp in the 60's and 70's. even into the 80's (late 80's cuz my sis got it in 1987.!