Transform Your Birth Podcast
The Transform Your Birth Podcast will educate, entertain and support your ability to navigate pregnancy and prepare to give birth
Transform Your Birth Podcast
Transform Your Birth Podcast will educate, entertain and support your ability to navigate pregnancy and prepare to give birth. We can’t control birth, but Tracey helps us to see how we can influence it and how it helps us to become parents.
Transform Parenting Founder Tracey Anderson Askew explores birth through stories and the lens of what birth can teach us. She prepares families for birth and parenting and views birth as the catalyst for the transformation necessary to go from woman to mother, and man to father. These podcasts will share that wisdom and change the current birth narrative from what happens in birth to how birth changes us.
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Tracey shares some insightful understandings about when and how to use the drugs in labour | Episode 40
Today I’m going to share with you some important information every woman must know when it comes to choosing to use the pharmacological options in managing labour. They are tools in your tool kit to help manage labour - but you might want to put them in the bottom of...
Sally and Graeme – Avoiding induction with a big baby and a partner’s perspective | Episode 39
Sally and Graeme resist the advice to have an induction based only on the identification of her baby’s size. Her caregivers were concerned about the risk of the baby’s shoulders getting stuck. Her labour starts spontaneously at 41 +2 weeks, and whilst it was a long...
Jennifer – Two births, discovering the spiritual side of birth | Episode 38
I loved recording this episode, as we started to venture into the realm of birth that is often not discussed. What is going on for women at a deeper level when they go through the process of giving birth. Jenn’s first birth started with an induction - and although it...
Josephine – From a difficult first birth to a powerful second birth through preparation and continuity | Episode 37
Josey felt confident with her first birth, and through events outside of her control, it ended up to be a difficult birth. She felt she had people telling her what to do, and no one really paid attention to her voice. For her second, she prepares with the ‘Transform...
Serena – Induction, tools for labour, her transition to motherhood | Episode 36
Serena completed the ‘Transform Your Birth,’ course and shares how it changed her thinking about birth, and helped her partner to feel like they have an important role to play. Serena’s pregnancy took her all the way to 42 weeks, at which point she agreed to be...
Danika – Reduced movements of baby, leading to an emergency Cesarean | Episode 35
Danika prepares for the birth of her son using calmbirth. She is very grateful for this, as her pregnancy took a detour, and at 36 weeks she needs to have an emergency cesarean under a general anesthetic, without her partner present. This was a lot to adjust to. To...
Bonnie and Steve – Preparing for Parenting and Pregnancy after Loss – a story of the power of the human spirit and connection | Episode 34
Bonnie and Steve share their tragic story of multiple losses. Overcoming the fear during Evie’s pregnancy was always going to be their biggest mountain. They worked with me by doing the ‘Transform Your Birth,’ course and stayed connected to our community during their...
Shelby – 2 Births, the importance of the golden hour | Episode 33
Shelby shares her story of two births. When having her first baby, as a yoga teacher - people kept affirming that she would likely have a straightforward birth. Her first birth was long. When her baby arrived, she felt dissociated from her new baby. For her second...
Emma M – Power of preparation, vaginal water birth | Episode 32
Emma had enormous fear around giving birth, and knew the answer to this for her, was to get informed and prepared.She read many books and completed the Transform Your Birth course. This gave her and her partner a clear path forward. She shares how she was able to...
