Entonox (Gas and Air)
What is it? Entonox (often referred to as Gas and Air) is a 50:50 mix of oxygen and nitrous oxide (also known as laughing gas). It is provided via a mouthpiece or mask for women to use as pain relief in labour.
Entonox (gas and air)
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Entonox
A mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide, inhaled through a mask or mouthpiece by the mother during labour for pain relief. Also called gas and air or gas and oxygen.
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Entonox: A method of pain relief. Entonox is a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide taken via a face mask or mouthpiece.
GAS (ENTONOX)
Pain relieving gas is often used to relieve labour pain. Entonox is a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). It is designed to provide as good a pain relief as possible without causing undue sleepiness.
Entonox
50% oxygen / 50% nitrous oxide (laughing gas) combined to form a gas that you can breath during contractions, to provide some pain relief. Also known as ‘gas and air’.
Entonox - A mixture of 50% oxygen and 50% nitrous oxygen that is used by some laboring women during childbirth. There is no color or odor to the gas and most hospitals have the mixture readily available.
What does gas and air (Entonox) do?
Remember the laughing gas you used to get at the dentist? Well, Entonox is a mild painkiller made up of a 50/50 mix of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and oxygen.
7pm - contractions 'nice' and painful using TENS and Entonox. June did another internal (7cms+) and got me to roll over onto my side to encourage Robyn's head to turn into the right position.
Epidurals
'Mobile' epidurals
Entonox (gas and air)
Spinals
TENS
Natural pain relief in labour
A-Z of natural pain relief
To get an idea of what giving birth is like, you can read a birth story from BabyCenter mothers.
 See also: Contractions, Contraction, Pregnancy, Toddler, Epidural
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