Can you buy gas & air?

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I have had 2 vaginal births and the second time the MW denied me gas and air when I first asked because she did not want me to burn all my bridges quickly!? When I did eventually get it (after begging) I managed fine and did not have an epidural. I may/may not have another child but wonder if you can buy entonox+mouthpiece to use at home in the early stages of labour? Probably a stupid question and the answer is no but I don't think I could cope with no gas & air until the later stages.

you can buy the nitrous stuff online easily. I've bought it for festivals.

Inhaling it out of the canester God, some people are stupid - and it's always them that ruin it for the rest of us!

They gave me some more when I was being stitched after DD1. After having DD2 the midwife told me that I had no tears, no grazes, nothing. I asked her "Does that mean no more gas and air???"

It's the same with everything isn't it. The dim witted minority ruin the fun for the rest of us :(

Really Dueling? Do tell...

Yes do tell ;)

I've still got a couple of the icing pump things

When did it become illegal? You used to be able to buy big boxes of the canesters for whipped cream dispensers.

Umm 3 years ago maybe 2.

I think it's just illegal to sell it for recreational use. We used to sell it in clubs and had to stop.

£3 a balloon!

Loadsa money!

Oh I wish! Makes me consider having DC4 just to get my hands on it. Or perhaps training as a midwife

Ah, I see. I'm pretty sure I have bought "whipped cream chargers" from a catering shop within the last couple of years (before I got pregnant though!).

I loved the gas and air during labour!

lol peppa - how DO they stop the mws having a quick puff when things are quiet??

gas for balloons/commercial isnt same as entonox.thats is what im saying

You used to be able to buy it on ebay. How legal that was I don't know.

When I was a student midwife my mentor insisted I ought to have a go on it in the treatment room one night shift (I hadn't been allowed it in labour either). We were soon both giggling away like a pair of hyenas, high as kites. One of the other midwives pointed out it was a sackable offence and we better stop it straight away. Never dared have another go.

hell can buy anything on ebay

here

direct link, though you ain't seem me right

here what?that wont sort your labour pain.nice cakes though

sorry , see other link. You need a dispenser and some balloos though, might not feel like going through all that faff while in labour.

but yeah, it isn't the same as the stuff you get in hospital.

entonox has anaesthetic properties.balloon catering gas doesnt.

bertiebotts they bring it to your house for a homebirth but they don't bring the mouthpiece so you can't have a cheeky toke in the run-up to labour. Probably a good job as my DH would probably have had it all before I had my first contraction...

You can fuck up your bone marrow quite spectacularly if you take too much of it. Dying of aplastic anaemia = not as cool as giggling.

Might be something to do with it...

Oh, really? They never brought me any beforehand :( I was meaning once you are in established labour, but nowhere near transition, if you wanted it then, you could call out the midwife to get the gas and air at home, and then transfer in at the last minute

scottishmummy what is etonox if it's not just nitrous oxide (50/50)? I mean, what extra anaesthetic properties does it have?

Those whipped cream canisters are oure nitrous oxide too, I assume at 50/50. They aren't 'balloon gas', that's entirely different. It's just that people started to put them in balloons and sell them as a legal high.

Oh what fun they used to be!