An amazing read!

I just finished reading Homebirth in the Hospital, by Stacey Marie Kerr, MD.  It is a fantastic book!  It basically spells out exactly what I want my birth experience to be like.  She is an OB/GYN, but she has spent a lot of time observing midwifes at home births and has learned to integrate the homebirth into the hospital birth.  Her opinion is, that in most circumstances, a woman's body will do everything it needs to do during labor and that most woman do NOT need all of the interferences of a medical facility.  She talks about how differently childbirth is viewed by the midwife community vs the medical community.  Midwives view childbirth as a natural part of life, something normal and routine.  The medical community views it as a medical condition which should be closely monitored.  So she strives to encompass both of those views and create the most comfortable and natural birth possible, while still having all of those usually unnecessary medical procedures and interventions available in case they are needed.  It's such a great book and really just empowers women to have the kind of birth that THEY want, not giving birth the way someone is telling you to.