
Birth Agni
This Podcast explores how indigenously Birth has always unfolded, among women - our tribe, where children could see how breastfeeding was done and how birth happened. This an attempt to fetch the stories of the past as well as bring out the new India’s Birth culture to expose the defining features in both. This shall join the dots to where the increasing problems of postpartum anxiety, rising rate of surgical births and poor breastfeeding outcomes are coming from.
Birth Agni - Agni meaning Fire, the Fire that brings us alive, transforms us and has the ability to burn. Birth is designed to affect a woman’s integrity. It is the fire of awakening that makes her life experience wholesome. Deep down her body knows what Birth is supposed to feel - a euphoria of bringing a new life on Earth. The cocktail of hormones are designed to give her a high.
However, birth today has quickly swayed away from a phase of joy to the one marked by Fear, the constant questioning of a woman’s capacity to Birth naturally and the ugly calculation of the odds of a healthy baby at the expense of the mother’s health. We forget that their health is interlinked and flourish as a dyad. In India, the urban rate of Cesarean Sections on an average until 2020 is a whopping 40% which is concerning.
Birth is linked to Patriarchy, Healthcare Politics and Women’s Rights. Respect in Birth is long due to women and it affects the core of who they are.
Join me Divya Kapoor, a Certified Birth and Lactation Counselor and aspiring Traditional Birth Attendant in the quest to shine light on what we can do as parents and a community to change the narrative.
Birth Agni
S03 | EP12 - Respectful Birthing- A Woman's Empowerment issue-Dr Janhavi Nilekani -Founder and Chairperson - Aastrika Foundation
- What makes a birthing experience Respectful and Positive?
- Is everything out of control when you birth?
- Would you rather plan things?
- Do we know how a positive birth experience really looks like?
Our guest on today's podcast , Dr Janhavi Nilekani, a development economist, Founder and Chairperson of Aastrika Foundation - A Nilekani Philanthropies initiative that aims to bring respectful maternity care as a women's right to all sectors of the country through various entities, speaks to us about her experience of birthing in India and what led to this massive transformational step in maternal healthcare.
Dr Nilekani also calls herself an accidental healthcare entrepreneur and quotes the unavailability of Respectful Birthing- a woman's empowerment issue. She speaks to us about the journey of fighting her way through to finally find a place (Sanctum Birth Center , Hyderabad) that catered to the kind of birth she imagined for herself. A story of empowered birth.
Tune in to know more about her journey and the concrete steps Aastrika Foundation is taking to transform the standards of maternity care in the country.
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Next up on Season 3 is a conversation on Pregnancy and fitness with Megha Jaggi , a Certified Perinatal Yoga Instructor.
Pregnancy Series: The next episode here on ' The role of Family and Partner in the early postpartum phase'
*******Postpartum meaning : Period after the delivery of the baby.
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