Ugh...I need new pregnancy books

The last time I found out I was pregnant was almost five years ago. I was 21 and I seriously didn't know much about birth or pregnancy. I bought the "right" pregnancy books--What to Expect and Your Pregnancy Week by Week. I was flipping through "Your Pregnancy" today. I was enjoying it at first--I love the illustrations of what the baby looks like each week, what it's doing developmentally, what my body is doing, etc. But then I started to read things about natural birth. "Natural birth" is put in quotations...automatically made me realize it was going to be an anti-natural birth passage. It said to beware of homebirths--there is twice as high of an infant mortality rate. Didn't mention which study they got that info from, though...last I checked, the mortality rate was actually LOWER than births in the hospital. Also said to "beware" of birthing instructors who teach that nobody needs a c-section. Do I think that "nobody" needs a c-section? No, of course not. Do I believe that nearly a third of delivering mothers need one? Again, of course not!

Then I of course noticed that the book is written by an OB and M.S...I have no idea what a M.S. is! I try and google it and I get Multiple Sclerosis and find out that the author has a master's in consumer and family studies. Wha??? Plus, the book was originally written in 1989. Sure, it's undergone some revisions, but it seems some of the 1989 mentality has stubbornly remained anyway.

I don't plan on a homebirth. I don't know that it's even an option living on base. I would like my next birth to be quite a bit more natural than my first. I don't want to be hooked up to twenty censors and machines, I don't want synthetic chemicals to be pumped into my body at such concentrations that I have non-stop contractions, if I need to use the bathroom I want to get up and go to it, not have a bed-pan brought to me like I'm an invalid.

I've grown and learned a bit in the last 5 years...guess it's time my pregnancy library reflects that.