Some tips for how to find information you need, depending upon your own specific concerns, in anticipation of your due date. And, like most women, those concerns may change throughout your pregnancy .

If you are "feeling like a Chicken," especially as your due date approaches, and are worried or fearful about the pain of labor and childbirth, you may find some much needed reassurance in Chapter Three: Your Very Normal, Very Common Fears of Childbirth.

If you want to know what childbirth feels like , because you are a first-time mom, and it seems like a virtual impossibility at this point that you will ever get that baby from point A (the womb) to point B (the world), read Chapter Two: Your Labor Pain. How Painful Is It? Really.

If you are certain you want an epidural and therefore you think you don't need to learn about any other methods, go straight to the caregiver interviews in Chapter Two, under "Are You Prepared?" to hear from the experts about why your plan for an epidural may be a good one (for you), but your plan to skip over information on any other pain relief method is not! Then flip to Chapter Six, "Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Labor Pain Relief."

If you want to learn about a technique that will teach you how to literally re-think your fears associated with childbirth, turn to Chapter Six, the section titled: Hypnotherapy, Changing Your Mind About Labor Pain. This formerly "alternative" approach is gaining popularity on labor and delivery units.