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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Kahlia – Big Baby, Posterior, water birth | Episode 31
Kahlia decided she didn’t want to overload herself with too much information and only did the ‘Transform Your Birth,’ course to prepare herself and her partner. She then goes into labour with a baby who is rotated and posterior which sees her in labour for 4 days. She...
Jenna, two births, induction versus spontaneous labour and after the baby is born | Episode 30
Jenna shares her story of two births. After an induction with her first, we explore how she felt confident with her second baby to wait until labour started spontaneously. She shares with us how she was able to follow her gut instincts in making decisions about the...
Cara, Two births, from intense fear to painless labour and powerful bonding | Episode 29
Cara was pregnant with her first child and went into denial about going into labour. Unexpected things happened, which put her into an intense state of stress and she discusses how this influenced her bonding with her daughter. With these lessons under her belt, for...
Natalie – Single mum, two births, awakening the lioness – hear me roar! | Episode 28
Natalie shares with us her two births, and how she stepped more fully into advocating for what she wanted. She experiences two beautiful births and reflects deeply on her own path of awakening. We also reflect on the connection between birth and motherhood. Her...
Melanie – Spontaneous labour, ambulance ride, water birth, help with placenta | Episode 27
Mel had a spontaneous labour and finds herself progressing quite quickly to the point she is pushing at home. After an ambulance ride to the hospital, she gets there in time to have her baby in the water. She needs some help with the placenta - and is able to manage...
Midwife Ali Teate shares the different models of Care available to pregnant women | Episode 26
Ali goes through the different models of care available to women when they are having a baby. She highlights that many of the models are very fragmented and don’t really cater to the experience of the family. She highlights how relationships matter, and tends to set...
Phoebe, 2 home births both with transfer, harnessing the mind and the changes she’s noticed in herself | Episode 25
Phoebe decides to have a homebirth late in her first pregnancy. She experiences a long labour, a transfer to hospital and then unable to have her midwives with her because of Covid. She has her second baby at home, and then needs to transfer after the birth to get...
Miriam – Power of knowledge when preparing for birth, birth, spontaneous straight forward labour, continuity of care | Episode 24
In this episode, Miriam reflects on her preparation and how she was able to change her mind about birth. She experiences the care of a known midwife in the birth centre and a student midwife. Her labour starts spontaneously and goes for a few days. With the support of...
What support do women need in labour | Episode 23
Tracey will go through why it is important women feel safe, loved and supported during labour. She highlights the importance of partners and birth support people to understand the process and not bring their own fears into the labour room. She gives the listeners a...
