I am sure if you have read my blog or met me you will have heard me say 'birth is as much a spiritual experience as it is a physical experience' and 'Birth is a ceremony; a rite of passage'. Each of my own four births have opened me to new ideas, possibilities and a new sense of empowerment. Birth in my experience, transforms us in ways that only extreme events in life such as climbing a mountain, running a marathon or sitting through 4 or 5 rounds in a sweat lodge can do f