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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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...
Nicole – Independent midwife, doula and hypnobirthing all resulted in a beautiful experience | Episode 22
Nicole was advised through a wise friend to seek the primary care of an independent midwife, and doula. They supported Nicole and her partner to have a beautiful straight forward birth of her dreams. With the support of hypnobirthing, she was able to use the practices...
Tory – Birthing as a single mum, overcoming negative messages, being surrounded by the right people during and after the birth | Episode 21
Tory found herself pregnant as a single mum. She discusses the pressure she felt to ‘get it right,’ and the conditioning women face around the way we talk about birth. She is able to access the continuity of a known midwife program and chooses her sisters to support...
Emily K – From Midwife to home birthing mum | Episode 20
Emily is a midwife and she has seen all types of birth. Making the decision of where to birth her baby was a big choice and ultimately she chose to birth at home. Emily had to come to terms with her fears. By reading ‘Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth,’ and doing...
Kate – using relaxation to prepare, vaginal birth, overcoming tearing, the importance of building your energy before birth | Episode 19
Kate’s partner was concerned about her ability to handle the pain of labour. After doing the Transform Your Birth course, he soon realised the positive influence he could have on her ability to get through the birth. They committed to the practices and Kate talks...
Eddie Two births, induction, reclaiming what got lost in the first birth | Episode 18
Eddie shares with us the story of her two births. Her first experience left her feeling like something got lost in the process. For baby number two, she dives deeper into the physiology of birth, and learns to appreciate mother nature’s blueprint. She is determined to...
Breathing for birth, the number one tool in the kit | Episode 17
In this episode, I’ll be deconstructing the power of breathing. I’ll explain why it is the top tool in the tool kit. We look at the myths around the teaching of breathing and the perils of overbreathing. I will then go on to explain what optimal breathing looks...
