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.

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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

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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.

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Ever wondered why the age of 35 suddenly becomes this big red sign in conversations about pregnancy?

In this episode, we discuss fertility and the age of a woman’s egg.

We will understand biology of what actually happens to your egg each cycle and how aging really affects fertility and a fascinating research paper I found , https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmb2.12652

• How does your egg actually mature each cycle?
• What role do hormones play?
• How does age and the health of a woman factor in , in her fertility?

By the end of this episode , you will be able to make an informed understanding of the entire dialogue around aging, women and fertility.

Links to real stories:

#130 - Shilpi's home birth story- meconium, true knot and a geriatric pregnancy.

#114 - Part III - Ariel and Nitin's experience:

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

#105: Rashmi’s home birth story

#74 - Becca's Home Birth Experience

Tune in for conversation on age, eggs, and women’s health.

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Oxytocin is a hormone whose effects on the body are hugely celebrated yet largely unknown. Dr Sarah Buckley's work on Oxytocin has extensive insights into how it affects women in pregnancy and birth.

Focus points

• The Oxytocin, Pregnancy and Due Dates
• Hormones and the essence of Pain in childbirth
• Oxytocin and Induction
• Impact of interventions on Labor such as Epidural and Csec
• Birth Bliss and the experience of unmedicated , undisturbed births
• Oxytocin along Breastfeeding and Postpartum

Dr. Sarah Buckley is a GP, researcher, and mother of four, best known for her bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering and her influential research on oxytocin and the hormones of labour.

For more than 20 years, Dr Sarah has written, taught, and spoken around the world for various elite newspapers, midwifery journals , tv and news to help families make informed, intuitive choices. She has been featured in documentaries like Orgasmic Birth, Birth Time, and Born at Home

https://sarahbuckley.com/

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Series: Midwives around the world

What is traditionally midwifery and what do midwives have to say about Birth work, licensure and the shifting dynamics among birthworkers. As a pregnant couple listening to this episode you will have clarity in your decision making when choosing a midwife or support team for your birth.

Discussion Points

1. Licensure in the world of birth.

2. Do skills matter in unlicensed midwifery?

3. Division in the world of midwifery on medical vs non medical - helpful or regressive?

4. Stories on supporting Plus sized pregnancy.

About the Guests

Maryn Green is a traditional homebirth radical midwife with over 15 years of experience in supporting women throughout the perinatal period. She co-founded Indie Birth Association and hosts -Taking Birth Back and co-hosts Raising 10 kids with her husband.

Margo has been a midwife since 2016 having apprenticed with Maryn for 5 years along with undertaking a midwifery course. Margo works with women virtually, mentoring new midwives while single mom-ing and homeschooling her two gorgeous children. She is also a magical money coach.

Find them:

maryngreen.co

magicalmama.org

https://indiebirth.org/

YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MomGoesSurfing

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Birth work is a complex territory. It is coming together of an expecting family with a birth worker and they work together with consistent dialogue about the changing desires and needs of a family and in Reba , our guest's words, the line or boundary of the Birth worker.

Reba Daniel is a health journalist, birth doula & childbirth educator with over 17 years of experience providing healing and recuperative support for birth trauma experiences as well as deep inner work support to pregnant couples.

Also, there is more nuance to this topic than what I can possibly sum up in this description. So straight to the...

Focus Points

1. Reba's Story of Unassisted Birth

2. How Birth changed Reba's inclination further into the intuitive and spiritual container that life is.

3. The methodology Reba used to surrender or find a direction.

4. Birth and the various layers of Fear in it.

5. Authenticity and Birth

6. Inner work for Birthworkers

7. Birthwork and Activism

8. Birth and Safety

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Sarah Schmid is a medical doctor, author, and mother of ten children. Nine of her children, including a set of twins, were born in planned unassisted home births. For many years, she has been active online in various ways on the topics of self-responsible pregnancy and autonomous childbirth. She has written several books on the subject, the best known of which is “Freebirth – Self-directed Pregnancy and Birth” Other key areas of her work include traditional nutrition, gut health, and dental health.

She narrates

• The story of her first birth with a midwife
• The preparation and self direction in Birth
• Intuition and Education as the two pillars of responsibility.
• Due dates with different births
• Was there Fear after experiencing birth a few times
• How did Sarah work with her fears?
• Preparation for a home birth - nutrition and beyond.

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Find Sarah's Youtube Channel

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