77 episodes
Transform Your Birth Tracey Anderson Askew
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- Kids & Family
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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Preparing your body for birth with Lynn Schulte
Lynn Schulte has been a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist for over 30 years and she is the Founder and principal instructor of the Institute for Birth Healing. Lynn helps pregnant women to balance their body, both before and after birth. She is on a mission to help women prevent and avoid birth complexity, injury and wounding, by promoting optimal physiology for the labour and pushing stages of birth. Knowing we are more than just our bodies, Lynn works on all levels, physically, energetically, and spiritually with women to help them access their full potential. She offers a certification process to help birth professionals become Birth Healing Practitioners.
In this episode, we talk specifically about 3 areas of the body worth focusing on. Balancing the body, promoting good positioning of the baby and avoiding tearing are all great goals and worth preparing for. Fascinating insights from a woman who knows her trade. Also included in the show notes are links that include her programs, a directory of body workers and some wonderful resources that will support the preparation for birth. I feel so proud to bring you this episode.
Links:
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice
Lynn's Links:
Institute for Birth Healing Educational Platform
Clinical Practice
Directory
ONLINE COURSE: Confidence in your Core, Pelvic Floor and More
YouTube: How to Massage your C-Section Scar
YouTube: Closing the Pelvic Bones After -
Alicia - Induction with 2 false starts, the influence of the environment, vaginal examinations, choosing to avoid the drugs
Alicia in her pregnancy didn’t really believe she could have an unmedicated birth, but after doing the ‘Transform Your Birth’ course she starts to open her mind to new ways of thinking. She ends up not even wanting the drugs during her labour. I loved the level of detail Alicia goes into when sharing her story. She weaves together the different twists and turns of her birth experience and the impact it had on her mindstate.
She was exceptional in how she adapted, from going in to have an induction, and being sent home because they were too busy. This happened twice! She was incredibly gracious, and on the third attempt they were able to get the labour going. She shares how she managed the intensity of labour, vaginal examinations and how she made the different decisions by asking questions. Such great wisdom in this episode. Enjoy listening to Alicia’s story.
Links:
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice -
Emily and Brad - Fast first birth, posterior, tearing and bonding
Emily and Brad join us today to share the story of Isabelle’s arrival. We often don’t expect first births to be quick, and yet it can indeed happen. Quick births are often intense, and pushing out a baby who is face up can also be difficult. Emily, with the help of Brad, managed it beautifully, as she had learnt to trust her body and relax deeply. Emily shares her advice, that your body knows what to do - just trust it. Another great episode to help us all to learn to respect the birth process.
Links:
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice -
Penny - What to expect when baby arrives, the role of Grandparents
Today I had a conversation with a Mega parent of 8 children and grandparent of 15, and great grandparent of 2 - Penny. We discuss what new parents need and the role of grandparents. This episode will give you a great insight into how you might change when your baby lands and what your needs might be. It is a great episode worth sharing with emerging grandparents as this role is vital and doesn't come with a handbook. We have also attached a popular blog to the show notes.
Links:
Read the blog
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice
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Suzzie - The role of a doula, the power of the mind to change birth
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 birth, and how it can change the way you experience your birth and even the pain. Suzzie is a very experienced doula and has great wisdom to share. Sit back and enjoy this episode.
Links:
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice -
Sheena - VBAC, 3 births, advocacy, patience and surrender
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 completely different paths to welcome her daughters and provides a message of patience, surrender but also the importance of self-advocacy. Such great birth wisdom. Definitely worth listening to.
Links:
Transform Parenting website
Transform Your Birth Today
Free pregnancy gift
Free resource: Medical Necessity vs Choice