In any new practice, there seems to be a run of transports, which allows the new person on the team to see how they are done. Transports are certainly not a favorite activity in midwifery, but they are a very real part of the work. Since returning to birth in October 2001, after a five-year hiatus, I have had nine transports in 23 births (two babies and one postpartum mom, all the rest in first or second stage of labor); these are not the best statistics, to say the least. One would assume that all this karmic transport stuff was for my education, but I have long been familiar and very comfortable with the emergency and nonemergency transport of mother and/or baby. Besides giving and receiving training sessions with EMS around the country, I also have discussed the anatomy of a transport on several occasions with my partner, Sarah, who is a deputy sheriff.