Well my first birth was a home birth by accident. I think of it as a mish mash of positive and traumatic experience. My waters broke on the bed at 5.30am. I toddled off to the bath room and that is where I stayed for the hour and a half that DD took.Obviously a totally natural labour. My xp (abusive partner) did not call an ambulance until she was born. I got to birth DD the way I felt needed. I stood the entire time and got to push when I felt the urge to push. So in that way I feel it was positive however like the other women have said support is critical. Xp didn't help until after she was born. I was ALONE the entire labour and petrified. To be completly honest I didn't even click I was in labour. I didn't have contractions every few minutes it just felt like one major one. I was in so much shock it was very traumatizing. If I had a do over I would of loved to had a family birthing suite and still got to be mobile .