Gas and air made me sick last time - will it again?!

[Pootletrinket]

After 36 hours of (induced) contractions and using relaxation, staying vertical and mobile, tens etc I needed some pain relief (I believe I was in transition because suddenly, I was curled up in the foetal position wanting to push, but they said I wasn't) - they offered me G&A - I said I thought it would make me sick (throwback to student and recreational drug use!!!) but MW said very unlikely. One puff and I was sick everywhere. It left me feeling so bad, I didn't puff on it again.

Now approaching childbirth #2, wondering if it would be likely to happen again? And should I have kept going with it last time (all my instincts were that it was wrong and not helpful to me)?!

TIA!

I'm often sick in transition, and its nothing o do with g&a as I've been on it for several hours at that stage! I'd try using it earlier, if I were you, and seeing how I reacted then.

I was horribly sick on gas and air with DC1, long labour and I was exhausted and de-hydrated too, not sure now if that had something to do with the sickness too.

With DC2, it was all so quick that gas and air was all the pain relief there was time for so I had to try it. Second time around I loved it, it was fantastic (DC2 was big a 9lb and a bit). Embarrassingly enough in the end the MW called time and DH was instructed to take it away from me .

I would say it is worth a try, second births are often a lot calmer and quicker so you could be less exhausted. I shall be hoping the gas and air works again for me later with DC3!

You probably already know this, but my mw said g&s makes you feel sick if you use it too late into a contraction. You are supposed to take some good deep puffs as soon as you feel that a contraction is on the way and stop taking it when the contraction peaks.

OK, thanks - was so generally anti it anyway but given no advice about how/when to use it (and they were syntocin contractions so -a lot- a bit strange anyway!). Still somewhat in denial about the pain etc, but thought I'd better look into it at least!!!!

With dd1 I tried gas and air a couple of times which made me really sick. Ended up having an epidural instead.

Ds1 arrived much more quickly so no time for an epidural. Was persuaded to try the gas and air again as there was no other form of pain relief available at that point. It was great. No sickness and really helped.

It might have been the transition itself...that made me retch, though I wasn't sick, it was just a physical pushing everything from the waist upwards up and everything under, down

I never touched G&A though I used it for a couple of puffs with ds1, which didn't help much and dried my mouth out so I stopped, eventually had epidural.

Ds2 was so bloody quick anyway I didn't have time for anything really, he was out in 3 and a half hours from the first ctx.

I would try it again next time but sooner ie not during transition. Good luck!

The epidural made me really sick though

Don't fancy one of those again!

LOL, I went straight to epidural (after the failed G&A), having hoped for nothing at all - but not being prepared for the induction pains. The more people I speak to, the more I think I was in transition, despite the MW insisting I wasn't!