The Belly Mapping(R) Method book invites you to explore your baby's position in the later months of pregnancy through gentle touch, playful activities, and mindful awareness. You'll learn how to bond with your baby while gaining insight into how their movements and positioning can influence your birth experience.
About the Author :
Gail Tully created The Belly Mapping(R) Method in 2004 and Spinning Babies(R) in 2001. Gail's 45 years of birth experience include doula care and training, home midwifery, and insights into her writing, speaking, and change through Spinning Babies(R) new paradigm.Gail Tully, midwife, has revolutionized the world's view on physiological birth. Find Gail's books Helping Your Breech Baby Turn, When Baby Lies Sideways, The Belly Mapping(R) Method, and Changing Birth on Earth at SpinningBabies.com and GailTully.com. Gail and her husband live in Minnesota, USA.
Review :
"The Belly Mapping(R) Method is a beautiful way to bridge the gap between medical care and emotional connection. By encouraging parents to get curious, to listen, and to creatively engage with their baby in the womb, we honor both the science and the spirit of pregnancy. This integrated approach nurtures the whole family, before and beyond birth." -Phyllis Klaus, PsyD, DONA Founder
"...an incredibly valuable piece of work ... highly interesting for expectant parents as well as for healthcare providers involved in prenatal care." -Sylvia Muda, SpB(R)CPE, Fysiotherapiemuda.nl
"Gail Tully combines unique gifts of clinical expertise, experience, creativity, sensitivity, intuition, original thinking, and wisdom to solve the mysteries of the baby's position in utero. She shows pregnant women and their caregivers a variety of clues that reveal the baby position and how to put them all together to create a picture of the baby inside." - Penny Simkin, PT, DONA Founder
"What a gem of a book! The Belly Mapping(R) Method is a delightful invitation to get to know your baby before birth. What I love most is how it turns curiosity and gentle touch into real bonding-building trust, joy, and connection while your baby is still inside. This method offers a simple, sweet way to feel more confident and more in love as you prepare to meet your tiniest New One." -Carrie Contey, PhD author of CALMS: A Guide to Soothing Your Baby
"I wish every person expecting a baby could enjoy Gail Tully's Belly Mapping(R) Method book. Her book is extraordinary, and I found it fun. My granddaughter is soon to be married, when she embarks upon the journey into motherhood, I'll be giving her a copy of this wonderful book. May all pregnancies and births be blessed.
-Ibu Robin Lim, Midwife, grandmother, activist for reproductive
justice and Peace on Earth
Belly Mapping(R) Method invites parents into a deep connection with their unborn baby. This book reaffirms that parents and babies are active participants together in their experience of pregnancy and birth-an important cornerstone of prenatal and perinatal psychology. -Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH)
"...A wonderfully intimate way for a mother to help connect with her baby in the womb as well as have a sense of baby's position. The information in this slim volume will make a world of difference in your comfort for pregnancy and birth."
-Robin Elise Weiss, BA, CLC, ICCE-CPE, CD(DONA),
LCCE, FACCE, and About.com Guide to Pregnancy/Birth
