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
#112 - Part I - Ariel and Nitin's preparation for a Home Birth
I received an email from Ariel sharing how listening to this podcast was a part of her preparation for a home birth and she wanted to payback by contributing her story to the podcast.
We are excited to have this homebirthing duo in a three Part series through their journey of Preparation, experience of Birth and Postpartum on the podcast.
Ariel and Nitin are an Indian couple living in the US who were expecting their first as a 35+ yr old couple. Fortunately, they had already come across Water birthing - a gentler approach of birthing at home in the comfort of their homes.
So, the idea although unexplored was still in their heads when they became pregnant.
The first part of the conversation begins with Nitin's journey of arriving at the decision of home birth following by Ariel's story.
We discuss:
- Navigating questions around safety of Homebirth as the husband
- Research and therapy work involved in preparation for birth
- Nesting urge for the fathers
- Zeroing in on a Midwife and building a team
- What having a midwife as against the mainstream hospital care can look like
- Internal exploration and working on fears in preparation for birth
- Significance of Childbirth classes in Preparing for Birth.
Tune in to hear how Ariel and Nitin’s journey was shaped by intention, knowledge, and the profound joy of welcoming baby Ira into their world.
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