Blogs & Birth Stories
A collection of inspiring birth stories from past students and insightful blogs written by Tracey.
Birth
Holding big feelings for ourselves as parents
How do you do feelings? Especially big ones? Do you fly off the handle, or shut
down?
Do you ring a friend and blurt it all out or write about it? Do you pretend it isn’t
challenging, and when your partner asks how you are – you say, “fine!”
You probably do all these things, I know I do. So how can we hold big feelings for our
children when we can’t always do it for ourselves?
Reflections on a 30-year-old marriage
Is our job to make our children happy?
How often do we hear the words – “I just want them to be happy?”
What happens when we continually are trying to make our children happy?
Is this the right goal in parenting?
Happy Kids? Is it our job?
Is our job to make our children happy?
How often do we hear the words – “I just want them to be happy?”
What happens when we continually are trying to make our children happy?
Is this the right goal in parenting?
Parent Grief
Guilt is not something you get rid of, in fact you wear it always – it’s another way of saying, ‘you
care!’
Learn how to put guilt into your pocket and use it to motivate you to grow and get better.
Parent Guilt
Guilt is not something you get rid of, in fact you wear it always – it’s another way of saying, ‘you
care!’
Learn how to put guilt into your pocket and use it to motivate you to grow and get better.
Parent Rage
When we experience parent RAGE – or other big reactions – it is a BIG opportunity.
Parenting is an amazing portal into our own crap! It is a sign we must do the work.
The day I broke up with my phone
We all love and rely on our phones – but what message is our relationship with this technology sending to our children?
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...
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 Emotions of Pregnancy & Parenting
One of the couples I worked with had a very difficult first birth. As a result, they researched other ways to welcome their second baby into the world. This time, they changed their model of care to a more woman-centered model. They completed my course and the mum did...
Breathing Better Is Not That Hard
I am blessed to see my families again after they have had their babies, and I do get some beautiful compliments about how my course changed their labour. But during a birth debrief with a couple, I received one of the most wonderful and confusing compliments I have...
Finding Your Voice in Labour
I have a distinct memory of looking at my husband’s face during my birth with James, with desperate eyes, pleading with him to read my mind – to get a towel for the floor, a hot pack for my raging bum, a drink of water, call the midwife and not to tell her she has...
The Magic of Zoom and Teaching Online
I have to be honest, when the world started to change so dramatically in March and almost overnight I went from teaching 20 people in the one room, to 20 people online on Zoom, I had to wonder “Will my program still work its magic?” I’m a results person. I will always...
Keeping Relaxed and Excited About Birth
I will admit, I’m a total nerd when it comes to the science of the mind. I have a real affinity with Joe Dispenza’s work, as he integrates science with the very real task of learning to ‘change your mind’ on a subconscious level, which leads to a change of feeling, a...
Being Transformed by Birth
Since moving on from Calmbirth, I have called my new birth program ‘Transform Your Birth.’ I love the word 'transform' because this word encompasses what I know is happening for the families preparing to bring a baby into the world. I’ve described birth as the doorway...
Information Overload Surrounding Birth
How much information is too much information? I’m a great believer in, ‘knowledge is power.’ All through history there are examples of the ‘elite,’ holding back knowledge from the masses as a form of power. Well those days are over – well and truly. Knowledge is...