New Active Birth is great! Reading that was a light-bulb moment for me: the working uterus likes to tilt forward when it contracts - that's why many women instinctively lean their torso forward during contractions - if you're lying down, the uterus has to tilt forward uphill against gravity --- ahh, so that's why it hurts more! Lots of other good common-sense stuff in there, too.

It was written as a rebuttal to the "Active Management of Birth" obstetric model that was popular at the time, developed in a Dublin hospital - to use drugs and technology to make sure all women dilated one centrimetre per hour, with time limits on how long you were "allowed" to push, and rapid cutting of the cord and delivery of the placenta. ("Mothers aren't humans, they're machines, didn't you know!? I'm sure there's a way we can impose mechanical rhythms on natural ones and over-ride mother nature! We have the technology!")

Here is a place to see a few positive birth images:

Birth Montage General Discussion #1