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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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...
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...
