Nitrous Oxide during labor - DC area availability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bump. Anyone know where currently offers it?

Washington Hospital Center

+1 I had it at WHC. Pretty sure that's still the only place in the area.

[Anonymous]

I heard Inova Alexandria has it now.

[Anonymous]

Definitely WHC and Inova Alexandria per their website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NItrous like whippits? Not to be flippant but can't you just get cartridges and a whipped cream canister at Sur La Table like we used to in college?

Exactly the same AFAIK, but I really can't see any OB being comfortable with that. "No, no, we're cool! Look Sur la Table receipt., I swear, this isn't the tip of our huffing iceberg!"

Hahaha. So maybe you can't do it at the hospital but seems like no one would report you doing this at home like OP plans.

[Anonymous]

INOVA Alexandria offered it to me in Dec 2016 so definitely available there.

[Anonymous]

They provide gas at Washington Hospital Center now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NItrous like whippits? Not to be flippant but can't you just get cartridges and a whipped cream canister at Sur La Table like we used to in college?

Exactly the same AFAIK, but I really can't see any OB being comfortable with that. "No, no, we're cool! Look Sur la Table receipt., I swear, this isn't the tip of our huffing iceberg!"

Hahaha. So maybe you can't do it at the hospital but seems like no one would report you doing this at home like OP plans.

Nitrous at the hospital is mixed 50/50 with oxygen. Whippets are straight nitrous. So, no, you can't just go to Sur La Tab. The concentration at the dentist is higher too (I think 80% nitrous), which is why you can't use it there but can for labor.

[Anonymous]

It kind of cracks me up that OP explained air and gas like no one else would have heard of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It kind of cracks me up that OP explained air and gas like no one else would have heard of it.

I had no problem with OP's post.

[Anonymous]

Special Beginnings Birth Center outside of Annapolis has it

[Anonymous]

You might be dodging a bullet.
Some people find it highly disagreable and nauseating. DS was given some at the dentist and promptly threw up on the dentist.
But I agree the option should be available.

[Anonymous]

I tried it during labor I didn't find it especially helpful although it might have been because I wasn't using it properly. Once I was on Pitocin my contractions became excruciating and I was so exhausted (I'd been in labor for 15 hours) I ended up getting an epidural.

I'd liken nitrous to being ravenously hungry and eating one cracker to try and satiate hunger while the epidural was like an all-you-can-eat buffet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It kind of cracks me up that OP explained air and gas like no one else would have heard of it.

I had no problem with OP's post.

And the post is from 2013, when many people in the area wouldn't have.

[Anonymous]

Alexandria

https://www.inova.org/healthcare-services/womens-health/locations/inova-alexandria-hospital/childbirth-services/index.jsp

[Anonymous]

Any word on when Inova Fairfax will offer?