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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Suzzie – The role of a doula, the power of the mind to change birth | Episode 72
Suzzie is a doula and mother of two. She shares her experiences that led to her becoming a birth worker. We explore the role of the doula, how they can offer continuity and emotional support when the medical system often can’t. We also look at the role of the mind in...
Sheena – VBAC, 3 Births, Advocacy, Patience And Surrender | Episode 71
Sheena joins us again on the podcast with the story of her third birth. She acknowledges the way every experience of welcoming our babies causes us to grow, and will have a profound influence on the next birth. She has the wisdom of a woman who has travelled 3...
Breastfeeding matters with Anne Endres | Episode 70
Today we have a special guest, who is a midwife, lactation consultant and leads a practice of independant midwives working in the community - called Evolve Midwifery Services. Anne sees breastfeeding as not just a physical challenge to be overcome, but involves our...
Tracey talks about making decisions through pregnancy and birth | Episode 69
Today I will be talking about how to make good decisions during pregnancy and childbirth. The key is preparation so that you understand the birth process and start to discover what are the things that are important to you. When making decisions, you will need to ask...
Mel – Acupuncture induction, waters breaking, the moment of birth | Episode 68
Mel came into her birth experience after navigating a lot of life changing events throughout her pregnancy. At 39 weeks pregnant she realised she needed to work out how she was going to birth this baby. After doing the Transform Your Birth course, all her questions...
Rebecca – 3 homebirths, 3 very different experiences of the pain and pushing sensations | Episode 67
Bec’s three stories highlight just how different every birth can be. They all resulted in straightforward births, and yet the experience for Bec was completely different. She highlights her journey to transforming her experience of the pain when having contractions....
Tasha Jennings – Healthy pregnancy, healthy baby, importance of choline, breastfeeding nutrition | Episode 66
I am honoured today to be having a conversation with Tasha Jennings, a fertility naturopath and nutritionist. She shares with us the 5 elements of a healthy pregnancy. This information can have a profound effect on conception, pregnancy, breastfeeding and growing...
Danica – Vaginal birth with meconium and managing tearing | Episode 65
Danica shares with us her experience of preparing for birth, and what made the biggest difference on the day. Her early labour involved some starting and stopping, and ultimately it was a walk that kicked her labour into the next gear. She shares with us how her...
Gina – Author of ‘A Parents Guide to Safer Childbirth.’ | Episode 64
Today I am talking to Gina Mundy. For over 20 years, Gina has been an attorney that has specialized in childbirth cases that have gone wrong. It has been this experience which motivated her to write the book, "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth." She wants women...
