Natural birth experiences

Hello ladies. I’m due Dec 4th. I would like my birth to be as natural as possible. I don’t want any medication, or anything like that. I would like to have a water birth & be able to leave my new born connected to the placenta. So I would like to hear you ladies experience, even ladies who did take the epidural. Did you ladies wish you didn’t or your glad your did? To the mommy’s who did do it natural, what are you personal experiences & what do you wish you knew when you did it? How did you prepare for it ? Just tell me everything! Every women in my family has done the epidural so they aren’t able to help me much. Thanks is advance ladies