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
#111 Part II - Meenakshi's Home Birth story
This is Meenakshi's home birth story and interestingly her discovery of pregnancy when she was breastfeeding her twins already.
She learnt pretty late and went on to discover it people started saying your belly seems different.
In this episode, we discuss
- Discovery of pregnancy while breastfeeding twins.
- Decision of home birth
- Preparation for a Home Birth and owning responsibility
- Experience of Free Birth
- Birthing the Placenta
- Early Postpartum
About the Guest : Meenakshi is a homeschooling mother to three kids, believer in womens ability to birth naturally on their own and the healing power of the womb. She is a active advocate of reconnecting woman to their wombs.
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