Belly Dance & Birth Resources

This page updated 1/2/2008

 Articles

“Belly Dancing” and Childbirth.  Morocco.  www.casbahdance.org  

Belly Dance and Birth.  Anita-Cristina Calcaterra and Lorraine Lafatta.  Special Delivery (no longer published).  Fall 1998, Vol. 21, No. 3.

Belly Dancing as Birth Dance.  Delilah Flynn. www.visionarydance.com/birthdanceB.html

Belly Dancing: Dance of the Great Mothers.  Delilah Flynn www.visionarydance.com/BirthDGMB.html

Big Belly Boogie.  Naomi Mendelsohn www.savvyhealth.com/disp.asp?doc_id=356

Birth Dance.  Elisabeth Clark.  Habibi.  Winter, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 1.  Reprints available from Habibi Magazine.

Chronicles of The Great Mother.  Delilah Flynn.  2003. www.visionarydance.com/ChroniclesofGM.html

Circling Back.  Belly Dance as Birth Meditation.  Janice Olivia Dawn.  HabibiWinter, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 1.  Reprints available from Habibi Magazine.

Dance as if no one is watching:  Pregnancy and Belly Dance.  Pam England.  Birthing From Within Newsletter, Fall/winter, 2001.

Dancing the Baby Down.  Suzanne Montalalou.  www.childbirthsolutions.com/articles/worldbirth/middleeast/index.php

Giving to Light: Dancing the Baby into the World.  Morocco.  Habibi. Winter, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 1.  www.casbahdance.org

Prayer to the Divine Mother.  Mirayah Delamar. http://www.visionarydance.com/MirayahDM.html

Belly Dance and Pregnancy.  Carma Haley Shoemaker. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/perfumedpalace/pregnancy.htm

Pleasure in Childbirth.  Leilah Ali.  Compleat Mother.  Spring 1996 Compleat Mother Magazine.

The Dance of Birth.   Anita-Cristina Calcaterra.  1992.

The Expectant Dancer.  Jawahare.  HabibiWinter, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 1.  Reprints available from Habibi Magazine.

Belly Dancing as the Dance of Childbirth.  Barbara Brandt & Gigi Groth-Devitt.  1976.

In the Belly of The Goddess:  Belly Dance and Birth.  Cathy Moore, CNM.  2004.

Belly Dancing.  Barbara Card Atkinson. ePregnancy Magazine.  February 2005.  (Cathy was interviewed for this article)

Pregnancy and Dance by Kashmir.

The Art of Birth.  By Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN.  Cathy was interviewed about the connection between belly dance and birth for this article which appeared in Advance for Nurses magazine, June 2005.  Vol 5, Issue 14, Page 14.

Pain Relief in BirthBy Sue Rose.  http://www.midwifesuerose.co.uk/bellyDancing.php

Bump and Grind.  From the Guardian Unlimited, June 11, 2005.  http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/beauty/story/0,1587,1502670,00.html  (Cathy was interviewed for this article)

The Birth of Angelina.  By Teresa Vangeli.  A belly dancer's personal account of using belly dance as part of her birth plan.  This article originally appeared in Middle Eastern Dance in New England; Sept/Oct 2004.

Belly Dance for Prenatal Fitness and Childbirth Preparation.  By Cathy Moore.  March 2006.

Gyrate Through Your Pregnancy - Try Belly Dancing.  By Claire Leschin-Hoar.  B.A.B.Y., Spring 2006.

Delivering The Goods.  By Joanna Weiss.  The Boston Globe.  March 23, 2006.  (Cathy was interviewed as an expert on belly dancing during pregnancy.  Article contains a brief mention...)

New Labor Moves:  Belly Dancing Hits Delivery Room.  By Rachel Zimmerman.  The Wall Street Journal.  Saturday, August 4, 2007.  (Cathy was interviewed for this article, and is mentioned along with The Goddess Dancing)

Not Your Mom's Lamaze Class.  By Elisabeth Salemme.  TIME magazine.  Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 .

BELLY BENEFITS: ANCIENT FOLK DANCE HELPS EXPECTANT MOTHERS.  By Emily Bregel.  Health Watch - Medical and Fitness News.  Chatanooga Times Free PressSeptember 10, 2006.

Hips Don't Lie in Belly-Dancing BirthsTV segment that appeared on Good Morning America.  Watch the clip and read the copy.

 

Videos

Dance to The Great Mother.  Delilah Flynn.  Available at www.visionarydance.com

Belly Dancing During Pregnancy.  Gaby Mardshana Oeftering. 1997.  Available at www.visionarydance.com

Belly Dance Prenatal FitnessWorld Dance New York.  2006.  Available at Amazon.  Click here to read Cathy's review of this video.

 

Books

Dance of the Womb.  By Maha Al Musa.  2007.  A world first eBook on bellydance for pregnancy and birth endorsed by Sheila Kitzinger.  Available at www.bellydanceforbirth.com

Grandmother's Secrets:  The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing.  By Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi.  1999.  Interlink Books, New York.  PP 142 - 147.

 

 

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