Free Pregnancy and Free birth

As many of you will know, I've had 5 children now - all pregnancies were completely different and so were the births.

1) Elective caesarean, I was sadly uneducated and believed what I was told. (Breech and low fluids)
2) Successful Home birth after a 20 hour labour, no problems ever arose.
3) Successful home birth, 3 hour labour (slow labour 10 days), no problems arose with the labour and birth.
4) Emergency caesarean section with double, stuck transverse twin girls.

So what have I learnt?
That's easy, read and research every angle your pregnancy could go. Even if you don't think you'll have a breech baby, read about it anyway. Don't read and focus on the horror stories or you'll set yourself up to fail. Read the positive and success stories, picture yourself having this kind of birth but don't be blind to the risks, make sure your facts are factual and not just someones account of something happening.
Example: Woman X finds out her baby is breech, Woman Y says her baby was a breech and she HAD to have a caesarean so woman X will need a caesarean too.
Make sure your facts are from real websites and not here-say. Make sure you be-friend others like you, who have been through what you want, I.E with after I had James I be-friended a woman who shared so much in common with my first, she was hopeful of a home birth, she asked my input and advice and I gave it to her. Unfortunately her home birth wasn't successful.

Birth where you want to and where you feel comfortable and with whom you feel comfortable. If your ideal comfortable is where you have lots of medical experts on hand to cut you open, go for it.
However if you feel more comfortable without medical experts around, go for it.
If I have learnt something from all of my experiences, it's that 'professionals' only stress the Mother with their false facts and figures, they prey on the women for what ever reason.
My next pregnancy (if and when I am graced with this gift) will be an unsupervised free pregnancy and free birthing at home.

If I could change anything, what would I change?
I would change everything about my first baby, even though I didn't have the internet for information, friends and resources I would find a way to believe in my body, I would find a way to birth naturally. I would do everything differently from the midwife during the pregnancy to the birthing of my son. I would do it all so differently.
There is nothing I would change about my home births, they were both magical. There is nothing I could change with my last pregnancy, I did everything in my power to avoid a caesarean, after 2-3 days in labour we are still very lucky to be alive, they were in such a position and stuck, even the surgeon had problems withdrawing them from my abdomen. I did everything I could, and sadly it was what was meant to be. It doesn't mean I accept it, it doesn't mean I like the idea any more because as I came around from the operation I didn't want to breath, I wanted to die on the table, I didn't want to come back from this failure. Not again. I was kept an eye on for several hours, I stayed in recovery hooked up to oxygen and a pulse oximeter for good measure, I also understand that they ran a blood gas test, had 5 stab wounds on my left wrist when I woke up.
I take my hat off to women who lie awake while a surgeon cuts them open and drags their baby(s) from their abdomen, for me, it's merely an operation. It's 9 months of hard labour making and growing a baby for some doctor in a white coat to rip you open, pull you apart and drag your baby from within you. It's not ''birth''. I've had the privilege to give birth and a caesarean section is definitely NOT giving birth. You may think this is harsh words but it's the gods honest truth, I don't beat around the bush, never have done and I never will. I say things as I find them, whether that be what you want to hear or not, I will never dress things up to be something they are not.
You will never hear me say anything positive about a caesarean section, other than in the end it saved my babies lives. I feel so strongly about caesarean sections, I'd rather of died than live with the pain of the scar and the failure behind it - speaks volumes.

I know there are other women out there, who are like me - hate their caesarean sections, and on the reverse side there are some women out there perfectly happy with the caesarean section rate, Victoria Beckham for one.