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Hospitals Are Starting To Offer Laughing Gas For Women Giving Birth

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Finally, an option for women giving birth who don’t mess with an epidural but also don’t want to mess with blinding pain for hours and hours!

The Cut writes about a new NPR report about how laughing gas is growing in popularity for pain management during labour. It was widely used in hospitals for all sorts of pain throughout the mid-1800s to the 1950s, and now it’s making a comeback specifically with labour as some women are forgoing epidurals.

As The Cut explains, about half of women get epidurals during labour, and although the risks are minimal, more and more are opting to give a natural birth without pain medication. Laughing gas presents an alternative, and it’s one that midwives are excited about. They like it because it’s mild, safe, and doesn’t mask the pain, but rather relaxes your body and makes you care less about it. Sounds pretty tight, to be honest.

Right now, nearly 300 U.S. hospitals offer it, and the list is expected to grow.

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UK PM To Offer Scotland, Wales, North Ireland Talks With Brexit Minister

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Representatives of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments will get a chance to tell Brexit minister David Davis how they hope Britain’s future relationship with the EU will work, under plans the government announced on Monday.

At a meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May will offer the leaders of the three devolved governments, which have varying degrees of autonomy, formal discussions on Brexit at least twice before the end of the year, her office said.

“The country is facing a negotiation of tremendous importance and it is imperative that the devolved administrations play their part in making it work,” May said in a statement her office released before the meeting.

“The new forum I am offering will be the chance for them all to put forward their proposals on how to seize the opportunities presented by Brexit and deliver the democratic decision expressed by the people of the U.K.”

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, has said her government is preparing for all possibilities including independence after Britain leaves the EU.

Scots voted by a large margin to remain in the bloc and Sturgeon has said Scotland wants to keep as many of the advantages of membership of the EU’s single market as it can and is looking for a bespoke deal to do so.

The British government has said it will negotiate a one-size-fits-all Brexit deal on behalf of the whole United Kingdom.

May, who has dismissed labels such as “hard Brexit” and “soft Brexit” for describing how clean a break Britain makes with the EU, will also tell the devolved leaders no final decisions have been taken on the EU exit strategy, and that how Britain leaves the bloc will not boil down to a binary choice.

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EU Split One Year After Merkel Migrant Offer

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One year since Germany controversially opened its arms to Syrians fleeing war, the EU has tightened the borders of “Fortress Europe” but remains deeply divided over how to share the refugee burden.

Angela Merkel justified her decision at the time by saying that the biggest migrant crisis since World War II “did not reflect well on Europe”, yet other countries furiously accused her of opening the floodgates.

Since last year when one million migrants entered the continent, the EU has successfully shut the main Balkans route, while a deal with Turkey has massively reduced numbers reaching the Greek islands.

However the bloc’s flagship scheme to share out refugees around the bloc has been an embarrassing failure — meeting just two percent of its target — while deaths in the Mediterranean have actually risen this year.

Yves Pascouau, director of migration at the European Policy Centre think-tank, told AFP that the “idea of cutting migration routes, in terms of realpolitik, has worked effectively.”

But the deal with post-coup-bid Turkey is “fragile” and “we have still not succeeded in overcoming the divisions between member states” on sharing out migrants and on reforming asylum rules.

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Jonathan Rejected BoT Chairman Offer, Says Senior Party Leader

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President Goodluck Jonathan turned down his Peoples Democratic Party’s offer to head the party’s Board of Trustees, before a former minister was appointed on Monday, a senior party leader has said.

The outgoing president was rumoured to be preparing the grounds to take over as chairman of the troubled party’s BoT, following a precedent set by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

That speculation gained fillip after the party’s BoT chairman, Tony Anenih, who resigned last week, said he was stepping down to pave way for the president to assume the post as he leaves office.

But on Monday, the party’s BoT named Haliru Mohammed Bello, a former defence minister and acting chairman of the party, as its new acting chairman after a late night meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja.

Speaking to journalists after the meeting which ended at about 11:15pm, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said Mr. Bello was nominated to act for the next few months.

“Haliru Mohammed Bello was selected as the Acting Chairman of the BOT during the BOT meeting to serve for the next few months,” he said.

On his part, BOT Secretary, Walid Jibril, said President Jonathan had rejected the offer of becoming the party’s BOT Chairman.

According to him, Mr. Bello is to act for about two to three months when election will be conducted to choose a substantive chairman.

Mr. Bello accepted the position and promised to work hard to bring the party back to its feet.

Among those who attended the meeting are the immediate past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Tony Anenih, Acting National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus.

Others include a former Minister of Information, Jerry Gana, PDP Women National Leader, Kema Chikwe, former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa, Senator Hope Uzodinma, BOT Secretary, Walid Jibril, former Minister of Women Affairs, Josephine Anenih.

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First Lady Angry With Jonathan Over Rejection Of PDP BoT Chair Offer

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First Lady, Patience Jonathan is allegedly angry with her husband President Goodluck Jonathan.

Patience Jonathan is not happy with her husband’s decision to reject the position of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees position allegedly offered him by the party.

Jonathan decision not to accept the offer did not go down well with the First Lady, who saw the offer as a compensation for the loss of the exalted Presidential seat.

She believed the position would still make both of them relevant in the schemes of things in the party. She was reported to have told her husband that half bread is better than none.

Jonathan had reportedly turned down the offer, citing the need for him to rest for a year before coming back into active politics.

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