to think Gas and Air shouldn't be available

[ilovemuffins]

only to women in labour - but also to pregnant and breastfeeding mums, especially during the festive season. Think pubs, bars, restaurants, office christmas parties... Preferably free on the NHS, but I'm willing to negotiate :-)

What a brilliant idea! I think I might head off to the labour ward right now and do a bit of shrieking, see if I can persuade them to give me a tote..

cd - You are aware it's available as pain relief during childbirth aren't you?

I had a homebirth with dd and only used about a quarter of the tank, the mw's suggested I finished it off. I have a photo of me, holding brand new dd, sucking on the G&A and sitting on my sofa! In the video we made of her breast crawl, you can hear dh having a go too! Great stuff.

My mate (whose dad is a paramedic) says that ambulance staff have G&A parties every month, as it's not allowed to be kept for longer than that!

Ooh, yes! Where can I sign up? Faaaabulous stuff

Seriously though, what's the difference between this and the other legal high that there was a thread about earlier in the month where everyone was telling this woman to leave her partner?

I'm sure we are all perfectly aware that gas and air is legitimately used as pain relief. So is morphine - but if I started a thread saying how brilliantly spacey it makes you feel and telling people to take it even when they weren't in pain, I'm sure I'd get pretty short shrift.

The great MN double standards strike again

I bloody loved Gas and air

And had the Mick Jagger lips (after 48 hr labour with DS1) to prove it.

Wonderful stuff

I am feeling extremely shortchanged by all your fabulous party experience of G&A! I laboured for 18 hours on blimmin' paracetamol thinking I would keep G&A up my sleeve for when it got really painful, and it was the biggest disappointment of my life, it didn't seem to do anything for me.

The epidural on the other hand...

Why has no one ever thought of this before? I think you're on to something there. Copywrite (copyright?) the idea, I'd pay for a bottle of G&A to get me through xmas day.

Yes! Why isn't it? presumably there is some disadvantage to having loads of the stuff, but none that I encountered. Love the stuff

spicemonster, I believe the difference is that this thread is a (cough) joke and the other thread was serious. If G&A was made freely available I doubt it would be as socially acceptable as this thread makes it sound. Lighten up love, it's that time of the year

I guess. Just seems a tad hypocritical is all. But hey if it's festive