This might not work for everyone but before my ds was due I was starting to get really worried about labour so I found reading all the different birth stories the easy and hard ones I felt more prepared when the time came.
Also even though I had a very long labour and he was facing the wrong way and they prepared me for a c-section but manage to get him out with forceps (the 2 types of birth I was hoping to avoid) I was fine as I kept thinking that people have gone through a lot worst and survived them.
I know you might of heared it all before but your natural instinct seems to take over and you seem to just do the right think, I never believed it until I experienced it for myself.
Hope this helps.