My grandmother gave birth to 5 babies she said he best labour was my mothers which was a homebirth attended by 2 midwives who arrived on their bicycles. She was a bit concerned when the younger , an irish catholic girl knelt at the side of the bed and said a prayer for he before she delivered my mum. The prayer seemed to work becuase everything went well. This was 52 years ago in England. Interestingly my mum is the only baby she breastfed. My grandmother then moved to new Zealand and had hospital births. Her first birth she had no prenatal education and when in labour asked a midwife how the baby was going to come out, the midwife said 'the same way it went in'. She waqs only 16 at the time.