That's so great! I went with a midwife too instead of a doctor. The doctors seemed obsessed with forceps and charts of exact weights to hit at each stage and so on. The midwife was so much more laid back - I could use a position that felt good to me, eat healthily and my body would gain weight according to my body frame and so on.
The hospital we went to had a special birthing room set up with a big bed and bathtub and everything, but the nurses went on strike just before I went in to labor. And of course they came off strike just after my son was born <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
In fact, my midwife was out of the room for a moment when the pushing part came on, and two of the nurses started putting my feet into the stirrups. It felt SO INCREDIBLY uncomfortable and I was trying to explain I wouldn't use them. The midwife came rushing back in and got me out of them and back into a better position. It was like the final "YES! I made the right decision!" moment <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />