Looking at the pics in Sheila Kitzinger's book "Homebirth" is what sold me on hb, I got envious!! "I want what she's having!!!" I ended up having my first at home, then later my second and third too.

If I wasn't already sure that hb is for me, the thing I found at BB that confirmed it for me was the thread about Victorian Birth Statistics. The c/s rate is more than 40% in some places and first timers are over-represented in those figures. For hb it's 4%. For women who desire a c/s obviously hb is not going to be very attractive! But for women who would prefer to avoid c/s and other kinds of surgical birth, hb does look favourable when you compare the stats.