Natural Childbirth Preperation

Well Obviously we are preparing for a natural childbirth with this baby since we are using a midwife and i'm really pretty excited about it actually i've done a lot of mental preperation over the last year and a half actually, natural childbirth has been the plan for our second baby ever since we started thinking about even trying to conceive, and one of my favorite books that i've read and i've read many lol is Ina May's Guide to Childbirth it has a collection of natural child birth stories in it, and it has many coping methods and techniques to make it through labor, another one of my favorites is Henci Goers, The Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth and this book goes through every single test and procedure/intervention that they do at the hospital and picks them apart telling you if they are really necessary and what leads to them and when is the time to go with it for your own benefit or if the dr is just trying to push it on you to get you out of there or in the OR before a going home time, it was a really neat book and i'm so glad to be going the natural route this time, i'm hoping to have a much more alert baby at birth :) So needless to say i'm looking really forward to birth because i have complete faith in my body that it can birth the baby it grows just fine even if the baby gets "big" whatever that means ;)