Midwives say The Birth Map is "the best birth plan they have ever seen, and we wish more women would do this". Partners welcome the 'if this, then that' approach to support, and report the process helps them to feel included and less stressed. Others have described it as Revolutionary. Birth Mapping is about communication, understanding and preparation. Birth Mapping provides a personalised, realistic and reassuring foundation for this important life event.THE BIRTH MAP takes you through the Informed Birth Preparation process, helping you to understand and determine the decision points in birth and prepare for life with a baby. What is inside? Informed Decision Makingwhat to expect from standard pregnancy care Creating your Birth MapGeneral Considerations for birth, each stage of labour, caesarean, post birth Example map space to summarise your informed decisions Beyond the Birth - what do you really need, what is normal? A glossary of medical termsRecommended Resources and Support Services for special circumstances.There is more to this book than meets the eye. A wealth of resources and support is made available to you, in the free member area on Catherine Bell's website. An optional monthly newsletter keeps you up to date. Catherine created this space as an alternative to social media: free of trolls and data mining, full of evidenced based information and genuine support. This is Your Birth. Your Way. No Matter What.The book is designed to encourage note taking and to record your journey (including space for your birth story). Pour yourself into the book, creating a keepsake.

The Birth Map is the solution to the maternity problem. The Maternity Problem stems from the medicalisation of pregnancy and birth. The Birth Map is the result of Informed Birth Preparation. It is a powerful document that works like a 'choose your own adventure', where the birthing woman is the author. It is the advance care directive of birth. It benefits woman, their partners and the care provider.The book has been designed to be written in, make notes, add affirmations, decorate it. Journal in it. There are pages dedicated for Your Birth Story. The first section give you The Insights, the foundations for understanding the maternity system and your options within it. Section Two: The Questions, takes you through each pathway (fast birth, expected and contingency). This is where the personal Birth Map is developed. The advanced care directive approach creates an 'if this, then that' series of decisions to be used by your birth team and care providers during your labour. It is your birth, your way, no matter what. The third section takes you beyond the birth, giving a reality check and helping to set up a support network for the early days of parenting. It covers preparing for siblings, 'what is normal' and breastfeeding. An appendix gives you a glossary of medical terms, a list of recommended reading, and resources for special circumstances. More than 'just another birthing book', The Birth Map is linked to the free Member Area on bellabirth: a portal of resources and a hub of support.This is the 'Word Map' cover option. The book has an alternative cover option, featuring the iconic 'pregnant woman' sketch by artist Emma Lewin.

THE BIRTH MAP ​is designed to encourage note taking and to record your journey (there is even space for your birth story). Pour yourself into the book, creating a keepsake. It takes you through the Informed Birth Preparation process, helping you to create your own Birth Map and prepare for life after birth. ​ Over 200 pages, covering: Informed Decision Making, what to expect from 'standard pregnancy care, Creating your Birth Map, General Considerations for birth, each stage of labour, post birth and beyond.

The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today. “Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary Supplement Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s case histories, to Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels.

Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping will play in our understanding of the red planet, and more deeply, what it means for humans to envision such heroic landscapes. Charting a path from the 19th century visionaries to the spy-satellite pioneers to the science fiction writers and the arctic explorers -- till now, to the people are taking us there -- Morton unveils the central place that Mars has occupied in the human imagination, and what it will mean to realize these dreams. A pioneering work of journalism and drama, Mapping Mars gives us our first exciting glimpses of the world to come and the curious, bizarre, and amazing people who will take us there.

Designed to transform the experience of childbirth, this manual calls upon the use of the timeless and powerful symbol of the labyrinth in 12 simple meditations and ceremonies. Ideal as a tool for centering the self and calming the body and mind, this guide ushers readers through the inner journey of the childbearing year--from pregnancy and labor through the postpartum stage. A variety of labyrinths--including four childbirth-related labyrinths from the Hopi and Papago cultures in the American Southwest and two others from India--are presented in this handbook and cover topics that include helping mothers focus on their emotional and spiritual state preparation for birth, aid in calming the mind and steadying breathing during birth, and allowing parents to fully process their experiences. Instructions for drawing a classic labyrinth, ideas for personalizing the design, and labyrinth "seeds"--start-up patterns for six variations of labyrinth--are also included.

Who are you! Where do you come from? Why are you here? What is your life mission? Did you know that as all human beings created by "The Source of all Life", you are a Diamond that wants to shine? This can be done by being aware of all your facets and by expressing them in their best possible form so as to gradually become the best version of yourself. The Birth Diamond is based on sacred karmic evolutionaly Hindu Numerology. It is an astronumerological chart based on your first name, your family name and your date of birth. It is a very relevent and effcient Self-knowledge tool for private people, therepists, numerologists, astrologers and human resource managers. It reveals your soul's structure and evolution plan thougth 24 "houses". It gives you "keys" and describes your various facets, especially your unknown ones, like a GPS of your inner life. It can greatly help you to answer the above questions and many more. In this book + workbook, you can learn how to build and interpret the Birth Diamond. You can discover your strength, your wealth and your resources, your challenges and contradictions, what you need to adapt and find your place in society, what you inherited from your parents, your deep self and your creative power, your technical abilities and recuring difficulties, how you relate to others, your solutions to generate progress, your "life path", your genealogical keys, your motivation and how you can blosom. Then, using simple coaching exercices and visualization, you can all upon the numbers and images used to represent them to help you reach your previously defined goals.