I read Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley which I thought was great. I had this preconceived idea that the majority of doctors are against homebirth so I was really glad to read this.

The other one that stands out to me is Birth Skills by Juju (can't remember surname) - this was more focussed on having an active birth but I still found some of the techniques useful.

I basically just raided our local libraries! I read one called Birth Crisis but can't remember who it was by! Found it really interesting.

I think it's great that there are so many positive books out there - it seemed when I was pregnant people suddenly decided it would be a good time to share their negative birth experiences. Only one person shared their positive birth experience with me the whole time I was pregnant. I found reading all the birth stories on BB so helpful to get a bigger picture of the variety of different scenarios that can happen.