I birthed my first flat on my back on the bed... I thought I had to do as the doctors said lol.

My second I was adament I wanted to use gravity to help. I was leaning over the birthball in the shower and felt the urge to push, so the middie wanted to check how far along I was, she checked and I was only 5... I ended up on the bed to just check on bubs heartrate and to give me pethodine (she was expecting me to go for about 4-5 hours and there ws already a fair bit of blood and bubs was posterior), got up on the bed slightly inclined, had the pethodine shot and within minutes had my show and was pushing him out! lol I much preferred the slightly inclined position, but still wish I'd managed to push him out in the shower :P