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
#94 - Vinita Mansata's HBAC (Home birth after Cesarean) with a traditional Indian Birth Attendant | No Medication Parenting and more..
Vinita Mansata's journey towards advocating for natural childbirth at home is a testament to the power of personal experience and determination. Disappointed by a typical caesarean delivery years ago, this with a vertical scar, Vinita ji found herself yearning for a different birthing experience, one that honored the natural process of childbirth and empowered women to make informed choices about their bodies.
Vinita ji intuitively went on to look for people, the Aam Admi who in her own words were ' not spoilt by the system' and had first hand experience with natural birth in its true sense- the local vendors and gardeners etc.
She was empowered by their wisdom and did not look for a gynaecologist the second time at all also refusing all tests and ultrasounds. She did meet resistance from her mother for her choice of birth as well as parenting choices outside of allopathy and any other alternative modalities.
We discuss in detail about
1. Journey of her decision of a home birth some 30 years ago.
2. Details of the home birth and postpartum.
2. Choices to relook illness for children and allow body to heal on its own.
3. Choosing not to vaccinate both her children and breastfeeding the younger one for 6 years
4. The wisdom of the traditional birth keeper and the absurdity of the radiologist.
Tune in to listen to the story of her birth, the born free movement which is not knew, which began some three decades ago, sounds surreal right?
About the Guest: Vinita Mansata is an independent publisher by the name Earthcare Books and runs a bookstore called Earthcare Bookstore.
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