usefulness of gas n air?

[damdaffs]

hi!

i wonder if i'm the only person who found entonox useless in labour? i found it had no pain relieving quality at all.

i keep reading of people who get quite high on it and feel 'out of control' and i just cant help wondering if the supply was faulty with me and i was just breathing regular-type air...thoughts anyone??

[loggedout]

Had only G&A for two of my dcs, you really have to breathe it in very deeply to get the effect, then it does work great.

Sadminster - I'm so sorry. Cannot imagine how awful that could be.

[LibrasJusticeLeagueofBiscuits]

They say it works better for smokers and ex-smokers as they now how to inhale it properly.
I loved it, it took the edge off my contractions whether that was because of the actually G&A or placebo-wise I don't care!

[Ohforfoxsake]

I'm so sorry Sadminster.

[shootfromthehip]

I was so busy concentrating on not sounding like a man when I spoke on gas and air that it did help distract me.

Now, ask me if it stopped labour being so sodding painfuil than the answer is a resounding NO and I stopped using in in both labours when I can to the pushing bit as I wanted to concentrate because I didn't want to tear (ironic really when I ended up with an ECS with DD! Ha).

Gutted for you sadminster

[Coldtits]

I found it fantastic. I was high as a bloody KITE, thought I was in a nightclub. The pain was still happening, but it was happening to "HER", not me. I just happened to be able to feel it

[girlandboy]

Horrible stuff.

Made me vomit sooooo much. Dh said it was like a scene from The Exorcist. Was expecting to see my head start to rotate next. Didn't help that I'd eaten Brains Faggots beforehand either.

[totalmisfit]

i felt it got me to that 'drunk' stage whereby nothing bothered me...not the godawful midwives, not the complete uselessness of my birth plan, not the two incisions being made in a rather intimate place.

that was after i'd thrown up a few times, had to get used to the stuff.

also made my skin glow luminescently in the post birth photos.

[Heylittlelady]

Totally useless

Have an epidural, why suffer

[lou031205]

I was told to breathe it in like my life depended on it. I did as I was told. Every contraction I passed out, literally! It honestly did take away all the pain for that brief time, until the next one came. It was fantastic stuff.

Having said that, I am almost completely teetotal because I don't like the taste of alcohol, so my threshold will be almost zero.

[rolandbrowning]

Gas and air is good shit man.

[SnowlightMcKenzie]

Yep, it's good when you're not in pain. I loved sucking it up just before being stitched.

[damdaffs]

hi all,

thanks for all those. i've never heard the thing where its not sposed to take the pain away, just make you not care about it. i was def expecting some kind of small impact on the pain.

at least it did make me breathe properly during contractions which i think helped the pain more.

i also found pethidine crap, like having a veeeeerry small glass of wine...

[SnowlightMcKenzie]

;
glass? I's sat a veeeeery small sip of wine, before it went through the fermenting procees, with the added disadvantage of being made to stay on the bed in case you fell over . Fat chance.

[MiniMarmite]

LOL roland - I remember actually saying that when I was in labour - I found it removed the pain completely until the last hour or so (as well as making me think I was a stand-up comedienne).

It it didn't help me focus like others say it did - they made me put it down when I had a ventouse so that I would focus on my pushing better (ouch )...