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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Emily – 2 births, Vbac, models of care, preparation, taking back her power, finding her inner wisdom | Episode 9
Emily will share with us today, two birth stories. The first resulted in a caesarean, the second was a vaginal birth after caesarean. She uses her experiences from the first birth to get very clear on what is important to her having baby number two. Emily shares her...
Kate – Overcoming her fear, Pre-eclampsia, Induction, claiming space to be ready for the induction, avoiding an episiotomy and feeling so proud of herself | Episode 9
Kate was quite fearful of birth in her early pregnancy and then goes on to study birth deeply which helps shift her mindset. In her later pregnancy she is diagnosed with preeclampsia and needs to face an induction. During the process she is feeling rushed by her...
Sarah – Negotiating Induction, Tens machine and gas, rate of progress, episiotomy and overcoming resistance | Episode 7
Sarah had a straightforward pregnancy and then was facing induction. She exercises her capacity to negotiate the stages of induction by giving herself time to see if each stage is enough to kick off her labour. This works really well for her as she only ends up...
Hope – Fear of birth transformed into a painless labour, her preparation and how it influenced her experience of mothering | Episode 6
Hope had an intense fear of birth and a history of anxiety. She discusses her preparation, and what are the things that changed the way she felt about giving birth. She committed fully to the practices, and really shifted her inner beliefs and responses to the idea of...
Sheena – 2 births, induction, big baby, asking questions, engaging partner support, breech and caesarean | Episode 5
Sheena shares her story of two babies under two different models of care. Her first birth began with an induction due to size. She reflects later that she didn’t ask a lot of questions and just followed medical advice. Second time round she chooses continuity of...
Erika – 2 births, overcoming the negative birth culture, birthing in Bangkok and being an advocate for herself and her baby | Episode 4
Erika shares her two birth stories. She had to overcome the negative culture and advice she was being given. Erika used calmbirth to lock in a new mindset. She discusses her process of change. Affirmations were a huge tool she used. With baby number 2, she gives birth...
Tiahna – Breech and caesarean, overcoming feelings of failure, accepting emotions and microbial seeding | Episode 3
Alex – Two births, recovery from tearing, trance state and the subconscious, the role of environment and time | Episode 2
Alex shares with us the stories of both her boys She shares how her preparation gave her confidence. She experienced tearing with her first, and needed to work on her fear, and bring in strategies to avoid tearing again for baby number two. She discusses the role of...
Katie – shares 2 births, choice and control, preparation, big baby and induction | Episode 1
Katie shares with us her story of two births. During her first birth, she felt things were done to her and she really had no choice. For her second birth she made some very different decisions. She chose a different model of care, and she sourced education beyond...
