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 – 3 Births, big babies, VBAC with a 4.86kg baby | Episode 45
This is a powerful episode as it fellows Tracey through what would end up being 3 births, all with big babies. We see how her first birth helped her to get very clear about what was important to her. She changes her model of care and sets up her birth space with...
Anna – Placenta Praevia, elective caesarean, transformation in mind and body to be ready | Episode 44
Anna came into her pregnancy with a mind that needed to know and learn things. She then had to deal with the discovery of placenta praevia that meant that her original dreams of birth would end up being very different. She shares with us in great detail the turbulence...
Jess – The power of knowledge, vaginal birth with a long second stage | Episode 43
Today’s episode is with Jessica, having her first birth, with the support of two step children and her partner. We explore how knowing too much about birth can find its way into our labour room, and how much information is enough. Jess shares with us her journey of...
Ashleigh – Undisturbed physiological birth in great detail | Episode 42
Ashleigh’s story is one worth listening to, as it helps us to really understand the power of undisturbed birth. She shares with us the preparation she did prior to the big day, and the fears she needed to address in order to surrender and work with the process of...
Matt – Supporting women through birth: a Fathers perspective | Episode 41
This week we have the perspective of a father supporting his wife through two birth experiences. Matt reflects on his journey of stepping up and becoming more proactive in both the birth space and in parenting. He shares that prior to doing our course, he didn’t...
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...