Thanks for all your replies!

I'm reading up on as much as I can, and sometimes it helps... It also helps talking to people or reading birth stories of people who have done it, too (of course ) Thanks for all the links and suggestions Kelly!

Shannon, I agree about not getting too tied down to the one idea - I have certainly considered that things might not go according to plan, but am hoping to prepare myself. I guess that I am a bit more worried about being able to handle it because until I actually started TTC and found out about all the side effects the drugs can have, I'd always thought that I'd go for them!

Lucy, thanks heaps for the CD offer, I've emailed you about it already

Heather, I haven't really looked into hypnobirthing, but I might do a bit of searching and see what I can find out

Nellbe, thanks for your suggestions too, I'll check out the thread you've mentioned. I might have to be careful not to just go with the flow like you did, but I'm not so great at making my decisions clear sometimes! Think I will have to get DH to stick up for me if I don't say anything myself