SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Mercy Springfield is the first in the city to offer a familiar pain and anxiety treatment for labor and delivery.

Most of us are familiar with nitrous oxide, which is more commonly called laughing gas, and it is a staple when it comes to visiting the dentist. Now Mercy Springfield is offering a 50/50 mix of oxygen and nitrous for those delivering babies.

“Really, there are multiple ways to look at it. It is multifaceted. We wanted to be able to give something a little in between. We have patients who want a completely unmediated birth, and we have patients who come in knowing they want an epidural. But sometimes we land in that middle ground, where I don’t want to get an epidural too early, I want to be up and out of bed, but still have something to manage the pa

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