I'm on the fence of deciding what I should do for this birth. I am 30 weeks along in my second pregnancy and since my maturnity leave will be in the summer, I would love to recover faster than I did with my first birth. I had an epidural and felt like it took all of 6 weeks to feel back to mostly normal down there. Has anyone had both a natural and an epidural birth and felt like recovery was shorter for one or the other? I also have read a natural birth could speed up labor. And if you did have a natural birth, what did you do to prepare for the pain management (breathing exercises, stretches, etc?)