I feel like I did everything humanly possible to get myself prepared. I watched movies, took classes, practiced breathing techniques. You can do everything I did and still not be 'prepared' though. My mom was my birthing coach, she gave birth to 6 children, and we took the Lamaze classes together. But I can honestly say you can never be prepared.
Every experience is different.
No one can tell you how it really feels, physically or emotionally. I guess you can say I was as 'physically' prepared as I could be at the time, but no one could have prepared me mentally or spiritually. The whole thing was very exciting for me, of course I felt every emotion though. At times I was very scared. I think I was more scared for my 'new life' afterwards then I was of the actual birth.