Alioops, sorry I must have missed your post... thanks for sharing. I hope your birth will be just the way you imagine it to be...

Flowerchild, thanks for your reply, too. I whole heartedly agree with everything you said in your post. I would love to see some pictures if you don't mind. Although I wasn't at my brother's birth, my parents have always instilled the thought into us, that birth is nothing to be afraid of. That it is natural and normally doesn't need any "assistance". And after an incredible experience the first time around, I am not the least bit worried about the next one. Of course, if things go wrong, I will roll with the punches. But I KNOW I can do this. And I just KNOW that I do not want to exclude my DD from it. We are a family. We do everything together. It just feels wrong to exlude her from this. Especially since she is a girl, I want to instill the normality of birth into her right from the start. I want this to be a a sacred thing that we share as a family. I want to be able to tell her later how she helped birth her baby brother or sister. I want to be able to tell her that she was one of the first to see and touch him or her. I want her to have a protective, nurturing instinct towards him or her.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this... it's just the way I feel about it.

Saša