A mother describes the beautiful birth of her fifth child. Under the care of a midwife, she feels free, for the first time, to dream of a birth without interventions. During pregnancy, she visualizes, over and over again, the kind of birth she wants. Labor moves quickly, and she gives birth in her van on the way to the hospital. She encourages women to remember that their bodies know just what to do in labor.
Keywords: labor and birth; out-of-hospital birth; visualization.