I actually haven't met anyone who wants a natural birth to sit under a tree, with no intervention and pixies singing Koombayah
Yes you have Kelly - ME! I met you at the Baby show in Melbourne - LOL!!!

Rainbows I had a fanstastic vaginal birth, so great that next time I won't have an OB and go to a private hospital but instead choose a midwife and birth centre (Kelly, I think the tree in a field will have to wait to baby number 3, though!! )

I agree with you that women only hear negative things about labour (three work colleagues sat in front of me an chanted the mantra "epidural, eipidural, epidural"). But there are as many women who have great natural/vaginal births who have traumatic ones, and the same applies for c-section births. I think whatever path a woman choses or has chosen for her (whether by medical neccesity or doctor's convenience) education is the key. If you are informed you at least retain some modicum of control over what can be the best and worst experience of a woman's life.