by Tracey Anderson Askew | Dec 8, 2020 | Birth, Parenting, Uncategorized
Becoming a Grandparent Grandparents are gold in the life of a child. They come with experience, their hearts full of love for their family, and no real responsibility to the child, other than keeping them alive 🙂 This means they can be playful, breake the rules, spoil...
by Tracey Anderson Askew | Nov 13, 2020 | Birth, Uncategorized
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...
by Tracey Anderson Askew | Nov 10, 2020 | Birth, Uncategorized
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...
by Tracey Anderson Askew | Sep 22, 2020 | Birth, Parenting, Uncategorized
Reclaiming what was lost in birth It’s her second birth, and she’s chosen a homebirth. She’s excited to experience birth as a connected family event. She trained her body and mind and brought a great level of commitment and love to her impending birth. She has done...
by Tracey Anderson Askew | Aug 7, 2020 | Birth, Parenting, Uncategorized
From Calmbirth Canberra to Transform Your Birth and Transform Parenting – An evolution story It’s close to a year since I first decided to leave my beloved Calmbirth community. To further my experience of working with new families and act on creating the vision...
by Tracey Anderson Askew | Jul 29, 2020 | Birth, Parenting, Uncategorized
Reflections on my Personal Meditation Practice It was the first day of my training, over 14 years ago, when I was listening to Peter Jackson, the founder of Calmbirth, talk about the role of the subconscious in childbirth. I was smitten, not only with Peter’s...
