As for me (just realised I never answered my own question!) I think I may be a grunter, based on Ianto's birth. I know that labour was very different to how it should have been - it was induced, there was all the emotional stuff behind it, I'd had pethidine, etc... But I'm pretty sure I'll be making the same kinds of noises with Cookie and others. I just hope I don't yell "I need to poo!" so much this time around And the confusion over why they were telling me it was fine, I could do away with that

When I think of giving birth to Cookie, I imagine myself on the bed (although we're going to try for in the bath) and kinda on my side - maybe I "see" that because that's how it was with Ianto. On my side during contractions, on my back in the spaces in between. I think he actually slipped out as I was rolling back onto my back, but I don't remember clearly