Blogs & Birth Stories
A collection of inspiring birth stories from past students and insightful blogs written by Tracey.
The birth of a baby, means the birth of a mother
There has been much wisdom and traditions cultivated through cultures all over the world, about what new parents need during this time.
How Birth Sets Us Up For Parenting
Does a pregnant woman wake up in the morning, and say to her partner,“Darling, get me a cup of tea - today I am growing an eyeball!” No, she doesn’t – well maybe she asks for a cup of tea 😊 She doesn’t need to set to work to make a baby, her body just does it. Think...
The Issue of Sleep
I was living in a block of units, with my new baby. He was a cat napper, waking after only 30 minutes of sleeping. He seemed to be sensitive to sound and so I did my best to make everything quiet, even though I had been told to get my baby used to noise while...
Stress & How it Affects Children
"I’m stressed and worried about how it affects my children" We’ve all been there. Overwhelmed by life and its demands. Snappy, impatient at best – yelling like a maniac at worst. Parenting has a way of bringing out the best and the worst in us. That’s the deal ok, so...
What Changes Birth?
We can’t control birth, but we can influence it. Many people believe birth happens to us. That we are helpless and one of the biggest fears pregnant women face when pregnant is that they will feel out of control during the birth process. They get told the only thing...
The Ingredients of a Rich Childhood
Mealtimes as a sacred time Mealtimes can be a sacred family tradition, and a time to catch up with everyone after a busy day. Even with babies, having meals at the table is a moment of role modelling of what it is to be a family, and the importance of good food for...
Getting Enough Sleep With Babies & Young Children
Out of all the many sessions we run at Transform Parenting, sleep sessions are by far the most popular. It seems to be the biggest challenge and involves some soul searching, as there are many marketing ‘fix it,’ remedies to be the solution to your problem of sleep....
Installing Healthy Habits Into Our Children
What are habits? Habits are programs of the subconscious. They are automatic responses to our environment. When we enter certain conditions, our minds are triggered into that particular program and bring forth our habits of thought, feelings and behaviours for those...
Working On Your Limiting Beliefs
How do we get limiting beliefs? It starts in childhood when we are at our most vulnerable. Experiences, moments in time that were intense, that involve people close to us, and usually comes with strong emotions. This leads us to create meaning from those experiences,...
The Developing Mind, Ours and Our Children
I have a deep fascination for children, particularly in how they develop and what can we do to help them reach their full potential. Much of their development starts at the beginning in those foundational years. When survival needs are met through the responsiveness...
Building Children’s Self-Esteem
As parents, our job is to help our children cultivate self-esteem. In order to do that, they need to know and become connected to the self. If children are not connected to who they are, they will not develop self-esteem. We live in a world that is quick to teach us...
How Children Learn
..and what we need to know as parents Knowing how children learn can ultimately unlock their blueprint of potential. Think of your child, as the seed of a tree. Inside every tree lies a blueprint of creation that is there to guide the growth of that tree. Our...
Looking After Your Relationships As Parents
It was about 8 weeks after Sam, my first son was born. I was storming around the house, slamming doors and packing my bags. I told Peter I’d had enough, and I was leaving. We then argued about who was taking the baby. I couldn’t even fathom that he thought he could...
Parenting as a Spiritual Practice
Did you know that we learn to parent, by the way we were parented, at least subconsciously. That may or may not be good news. What is helpful to know, is that our reactive thoughts and feelings come from our subconscious programs. Our job as we grow, is to upgrade the...
Moving Forward in a World With COVID
Reclaiming Our Community and ConnectionHello my dear, thanks for tuning in. I had my first in-person class over the weekend, since the lockdown. It was so lovely to have people back in the training room. I was acutely aware of the fear levels of people in the room, as...
Communication – listening and talking is a skill to develop
The biggest superpower we have as humans is our ability to communicate – both talking and listening - and very few of us are taught how to do this. My husband often quotes the saying, we have two ears, one mouth – use accordingly. In other words, listen twice as...
It Takes a Village
They say it takes a village to raise a child – and yet we don’t often have much of a village these days. Sometimes we need to look outside of our own extended family to create extra support and bring a richness that comes from having many different people as part of...
The Importance of Play for Young Children
As an only child of a single mother, I grew up entertaining myself. When mum got home from work, she didn’t have the time or space to entertain me. I knew from an early age that my own fun came from me, and what I could make, create, discover and imagine. If ever I...
Life After Birth: Managing the First Few Days
Read this before your baby is born and get your partner/a loved one to read it to you asap after your baby arrives. Having a new baby is like learning a new job where you’re expected to work 24/7 on limited amounts of broken sleep, with a boss who doesn’t speak your...
Your Baby has Arrived! Tips for Partners
You have been an amazing partner during the birth – now what happens? It’s a very intense time of learning and adjusting when a new baby lands, particularly for the birthing mother. Not only does her body need to heal from the birth and return to a non-pregnant state,...
Creating Family Rituals
My son gazes lovingly into my eyes one night as I put him to bed. This has always been an important time of connection for us. I have sung him his own song since he was a baby. This song signals the words I want to deeply instil within him, that he is loved and he is...