Nitrous oxide – known colloquially as "laughing gas" – has many uses, from a painkiller during dental procedures to a whipping agent for canned whipped cream. While its euphoric side effects have long ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...

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Nitrous oxide could give women an intermediate option short of an epidural. April 27, 2011— -- Rapid contractions left Anna Jaeger desperate for something more than the distraction of the jacuzzi ...