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
#120 - Swati's normal birth with the presence of meconium
- Did you know that meconium at birth is very common?
- Did you know that meconium is not always threatening for the baby?
- Did you know that normal delivery with meconium is possible when we individualise care and see the benefits vs risk from a case to case basis?
Swati's story of natural birth with meconium is one where an experienced doctor did not scare her. He observed and as the baby was not distressed, he waited and Swati was able to birth the baby vaginally.
Her son was taken in for observation in NICU but she was allowed to nurse inside and visit frequency. All of these show us the possibilities of what can and ideally should be a choice every woman should have. We are creating more health issues with the number of surgical births that are happening.
We also explore in our discussion why another woman with a similar scenario had to undergo a surgery.
Swati is a mother, an artist and an art teacher, she grew up in bangalore and was lucky enough to have had her child there too. She enjoys learning new forms of art, reading a good book and cooking.
Other resources on Meconium:Dr Rachel Reed's site: https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/meconium-stained-amniotic-fluid
Birthing Instincts Podcast: https://episodes.fm/1552816683/episode/YTFjY2UxODYtYjhiOS00ZjU0LTkyOTItZDQ5YmMxYzI2Y2Uz
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