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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

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#94 - Vinita Mansata's HBAC (Home birth after...

Birth Agni ·

2024/02/08

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

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#93 - Community Care and Deciding to work with a...

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2024/01/31

The keyword is who is going to 'Sit with you' through it all with your choices and decisions and be nurturing in your journey! That's where the foundation is laid!As a trainee midwife and a practising doula as well as a lactation counsellor, I do a lot of home visits, have pregnancy support group meetings where women physically meet and discuss pregnancy, postpartum , breastfeeding and more.I began calling my way of serving women as community care , an established term but i often

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#92 - Baneen's Home Birth Story with a Midwife , a...

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2024/01/18

Why a home birth , you may ask? Why a home birth despite risks?What if you have worked in the medical system and chose to home birth realising that is the best option for you?That's Baneen Karachiwala, a Public Health Researcher, Baneen has been associated with various organisations at the national and international level for the last 19 years, providing support in research, documentation and programmatic interventions in the fields of health and development across India. Her special interests

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#91 - Part II - Can Active Labor stall at 10 cms?...

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2024/01/05

We all like to see things as linear so as to find a conclusive way to work at them. In the product and consumption world , we are taught how to plan to achieve a desired goal, to achieve something exactly how we want it! This is the opposite of how 'Birth' works. It is uncertain. It is unknown. It is being in the moment and the moment as your guide. All the knowledge helps and should be directed to teach you to surrender! It is pretty much a way of living 'Life'. I wish this

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#90 - Part I - Aparna's Birth story | Choosing a...

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2023/12/25

As a first time mother, Aparna knew that she wanted a Normal Delivery but did not know what decisions could maximize her chances.Register for Prenatal Village here https://forms.gle/a5cAyPgoLaXwz2K88Instinctively, she knew she did not want to choose a fancy hospital , she was wary decisions would be made to increase the bills and it may not necessarily be based on her health. She even enquired at a government hospital knowing it has better rates of normal birth than the major private

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#89 - Part II - Obstetric Emergencies - SGA (Small...

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2023/12/03

This episode is a part of our conversation on Obstetric Emergencies which are critical situations during pregnancy, labor, or the postpartum period that require immediate medical attention to safeguard the health and well-being of the mother and/or baby. But are these really emergencies or is there more to it?In Part I of this episode we discussed, Large for Gestational Age babies and its link with Gestational Diabeties with Senior Midwife KL Goode who is a Hawaain traditional midwife with over 53

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#88 - Part I - Obstetric Emergencies - Big Baby - A...

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2023/11/24

Obstetric emergencies refer to critical situations during pregnancy, labor, or the postpartum period that require immediate medical attention to safeguard the health and well-being of the mother and/or baby. But are these really emergencies?Many women today are being told they either have a Large for Gestational Age Baby (LGA) or Small for Gestational Age Baby (SGA). IUGR is another term thrown around independently that needs fixing. It is important to note that these issues are often figured out at

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#87 - Understand Baby sleep patterns | Reduce Fussy...

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2023/10/27

Does your baby have fussy evenings?Are you concerned about you baby or toddler's sleep ?If you are looking at the internet for answers, know that the Internet is flooded with inappropriate information about training babies to sleep. The various methods that include crying of the baby are suggestive of treating a baby , a whole human , like a machine, incapable of thinking for itself or feel in the least. This is not gentle and it is not developmentally healthy as well.In this episode, we sit

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#86- Maternal Mental Health with Somatic Healer...

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2023/10/15

A woman never forgets her birth experience. This has more to do with how she was made to feel than the sequence of events or the mode of birth. Sometimes when it is the events leading to a traumatic Birth experience, it deeply affects her .Trauma gets stored in the body and has physical expression as well . In this episode, we see that trauma is not necessarily a result of one event. It is an amalgamation of the entire history of a woman's life. It has to do with the culture, the life

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28:10

#85 - Birth Stories - Part II - Sara and Khan's Free...

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2023/10/07

In the first part of Sara and Khan's Birth story , we went over their decision to free birth , the factors influencing it and the entire experience of labor and birth.If you have not heard the first part , hop on to EP 84 and come back to this In this episode:We go over :Placenta tincturesBreastfeedingPostpartum Care Parenthood and more..Tune in to know more...Support the showPrepare for Birth, explore Prenatal and Postnatal Preparation Classes, visit www.birthagni.comSupport the show: If you

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#84- Birth Stories - Part I - Sara and Khan's Free...

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2023/09/29

Sara conceived Zion at the age of 35 , a perfectly healthy young woman , active and a firm believer in the universe's power on us humans and everything life. It was the time of the Covid fading in 2020, she had to renew her visa to continue her stay in India. She chose to go to the hospital to help with paper work but she was seen as a high risk case almost decided for a surgery after a shortwhile, slowly being compelled through subtle coercion. Sara and Khan decided to take things in their

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#83 - Induction an epidemic? What does WHO say? What...

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2023/09/18

Induction is offered to every mother routinely in the urban hospitals in India.The various issues are big baby, small baby, past due date , one episode of high blood pressure, all of which are not medical emergencies but perceived problems that are being brought to fit the solution to it. It is not a problem based solution scenario but more a solution based problem making. Induction as a procedure comes with its own set of risks, it is a pseudo attempt at 'supporting normal births' Oh we

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#82 - Birth Stories - Nisha's Free Birth Story in...

Birth Agni ·

2023/09/09

Nisha, had her first born at Birth Village, Kerala, India. She is from Bangalore and moved cities to birth. She had a vaginal / normal birth there however, something within her felt rushed, unheard and ordered around . It did not sit right with her. She longed to know more and by following the Free Birth Society Podcast and other resources she realised not everything she experienced was in alignment with physiological or natural birth. Her birth space was hampered . Listening to stories of positive

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#81 - Birth Stories - Chhavi Mittal's Birth Story |...

Birth Agni ·

2023/08/11

Chhavi Mittal is an Indian Actress, model and producer who is also a mother of two beautiful children. The story of her two births was covered in CNA Insider's documentary , 'A million cuts - India's C-section Epidemic' which is an attempt at blowing the gaff on India's rising C-section rates in the hospitals. In hushed voices, we all know it. We all talk about birth and women's bodies being used as a money making machine for corporate hospitals. Chhavi revealed on

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#80- Birth Affirmations for Pregnancy , labor and birth

Birth Agni ·

2023/08/06

My childbirth classes mothers wanted a recorded audio for Birth Affirmations. We practice affirmations and visualization in the class and they are suggested to do it as a meditative exercise on their own. This episode is a product of this request and here you can use it too. It has everything you are suggested in your birth classes about labor and birth. This can be your ally. Your encouraging partner. This can be your voice in labor and birth Practice playing these everyday. August'23

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#79 - Birth Stories - Supriya's positive Water Birth...

Birth Agni ·

2023/07/28

It is becoming painfully sad that despite the best preparation the obstetricians/gynaecologists are able to pursue the parents to choose Surgical births like they are selling candies. The language is usually this, 'this is just the trailer, do you think you want to take it further?' Oh even after you take so much pain, you may have to undergo surgery , then why do you think you want to take it any more. It is you choice , yes you may have natural birth after waiting but it is still a risk

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#78- Birth Stories - Sameha's gentle birth at Sanctum...

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2023/07/16

Sameha was waiting for her labor to begin as she was already past 10 days of her estimated due date. Little did she know her labor would be a quick one and she would have labored majorly at home only rush to the birth center when she felt the first pushing sensation. Her water had already broken and there was meconium .Now you may want to know if her hospital was close or far off. What happened when she reached the birth center? Was everyone worried about the meconium and reeled her into an

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#77- Birth Stories - Nani's home birth stories in the...

Birth Agni ·

2023/07/08

Nani, my maternal grandmother was always in the village, up north of India. She has six children, five girls and one boy, quite classic of the traditional households.The first two , my mum and my aunt (masi) were born in a hospital outside the village where my Nanaji, maternal grandfather was a homeopath doctor. The other four children were born at home with a traditional birth attendant (Local Daima) . All were born in a sitting position. This episode gives a cultural perspective on how birth

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#76- Birth Stories - Madhuri and Praneshwar Das's...

Birth Agni ·

2023/06/25

Madhuri and Praneswara Das are Krishna devotees from Mayapur, Kolkata. Madhuri was always scared of needles. When she learnt she is pregnant which she was expecting , she was terrified on how to go about it. Initially, they did go to the doctor for checkups but there was a point when after an ultrasound they decided to do, the doctor said the liver of the baby is not functioning. This was a huge blow but they were not held or emotionally supported at the hospital.Their faith and birth education,

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#75- Rani Didi's Birth Story- 3 home births about 16...

Birth Agni ·

2023/06/15

Rani Didi is my house help. She has four children, 1 girl and three boys, the oldest being the girl who is sixteen now.When I asked Rani didi, how did you birth, she nonchalantly mentions, ‘At home!. We all birth at home’. Her description of labor is not too detailed but the story has a cultural significance. More so , it is empowering to see the ease in her voice and the confidence about her body , birth and nature.She may not use the modern Gen Z language to describe her experience but the

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