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Birth Agni

Birth Agni

By: Divya Kapoor
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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.

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Episodes
  • Announcement : Season 2026 - Home Birth | Pregnancy Series

    Announcement : Season 2026 - Home Birth | Pregnancy Series
    Feb 25 2026

    Three weeks into February, in the soft glow of postpartum, our host, Divya shares a tender life update : welcoming her son in the quiet hours of December after a birth she deeply cherishes. Supported by her husband, daughter, and doula, this experience has begun a powerful season of slowing down, integration, and presence.

    In this episode, Rohit Kokane, head of productions at Birth Agni, explains the pause and officially announce the return of Birth Agni in June 2026 — with more real birth stories, diverse expert-led education, advocacy-driven conversations, and the continuation of Midwives Around the World.

    We also introduce a special membership-only pregnancy series launching in August 2026 , 12 intimate episodes designed to help you build your birth team, work through fears, nourish your body, and prepare for birth in a way that aligns with your life.

    Birth is a becoming.
    We’ll see you in June ’26.

    Support the show

    Sign up for Childbirth Preparation Programs! visit https://birthagni.com/services#childbirth-preparation-programs

    https://birthagni.com/copy-of-services#breastfeeding-preparation-program

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    5 mins
  • #152 - Surabhi 's Birth Story | Glucose IV | Self Acceptance | Placenta Birth

    #152 - Surabhi 's Birth Story | Glucose IV | Self Acceptance | Placenta Birth
    Dec 21 2025

    Note - This is the last episode of the year 2025

    We will be back in 2026!

    Happy festivities!

    Part II of Surabhi's birth story takes you through her journey of labor and birth.

    Discussion points

    • Laboring at home to reaching the birth centre 2 hours away
    • Experience of labor on the way
    • Experience of labor at the center
    • The various learnings in the experience
    • The pushing stage
    • Breastfeeding
    • Placenta birth

    Tune in now!

    Support the show

    Sign up for Childbirth Preparation Programs! visit https://birthagni.com/services#childbirth-preparation-programs

    https://birthagni.com/copy-of-services#breastfeeding-preparation-program

    This episode is supported and made possible by podcast recording and hosting tool Zencastr, it is impeccably made!

    Use my link : https://zen.ai/vxmuJUgYKKGTF3JuTuFQ0g to sign up and record flawless remote podcast , USE my code : BIRTHAGNI


    Support the show:

    https://birthagni.com/birthagnipodcast#donate

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • #151- Surabhi and Darshan's Birth Preparation | Advocacy at a Birth Center

    #151- Surabhi and Darshan's Birth Preparation | Advocacy at a Birth Center
    Dec 3 2025

    In this conversation, Surabhi Shekhar, founder Gubbi Gudu, women’s wellness specialist, prenatal/postnatal yoga guide, and doula-in-training joins us with her loving husband, Darshan, to share the story of their preparation for a birth center experience.

    They speak at length about the thorough preparation, the inner work at various crossroads, and discussions as a couple helped them arrive at their decisions and needs in this journey. Surabhi reflects on the emotional process of choosing where to birth, while Darshan brings in the partner’s perspective.

    Their fun and interactive style of advocacy helped them collaborate with their birth center team and find a middle ground. 'Time -specific' boundaries helped them push for their needs over and over again. Knowledge became their strongest tool, helping them ask the right questions, make informed decisions, and cultivate genuine partnership with their care providers.

    And in a first for their birth center, their advocacy made them the first couple to physiologically birth their placenta.

    This episode shows what preparation can look like and how it can help propell a couple further in the direction of the birth they imagine, yet embrace that birth is an unknown space.

    Tune in now to know more!

    Support the show

    Sign up for Childbirth Preparation Programs! visit https://birthagni.com/services#childbirth-preparation-programs

    https://birthagni.com/copy-of-services#breastfeeding-preparation-program

    This episode is supported and made possible by podcast recording and hosting tool Zencastr, it is impeccably made!

    Use my link : https://zen.ai/vxmuJUgYKKGTF3JuTuFQ0g to sign up and record flawless remote podcast , USE my code : BIRTHAGNI


    Support the show:

    https://birthagni.com/birthagnipodcast#donate

    • If you like what you hear, leave us
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      • a review on Apple podcasts.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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