India, May 15 -- When Kalki Koechlin and her musician boyfriend Guy Hershberg welcomed their baby daughter Sappho, the couple chose to go with a water birth. The actor recently opened about the benefits of the technique and explained why it is not approved as a norm. Kalki opined that some people think it is "weird" cult-like or "chudail practice" which keeps them away from opting for it.

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The Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani actor in a conversation with Aleena Dissects said, "I think this should be standard practice. Water birthing is much easier on the body during natural birth. There's so much research that it's easie...