Making a drum and giving birth to a baby may sound worlds apart, but when I first made a drum with my friends Gabriela and Paddy, I felt it had so many echos of birth and the early postpartum days with your baby. I have since guided a number of people in drum birthing and each time I feel echos of the similarities between drum birthing and childbirth. They really are on many emotional and psychological levels such a similar process. When my friend Kevin, who is a shamanic