Robin Lim

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  • Ibu Robin Lim Midwife ~ Bali, Indonesia and Philippine Islands As a Filipina~American~Micronesian grandmother midwife I am blessed to kneel at the feet of birthing women, the StarGate between Earth and the Land of Souls. Every 11 seconds a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere on Earth. 800 mothers and 7,000 babies die each day. Most of these lives are lost due to preventable or treatable causes. Solutions include eradicating disparities in food security and making skilled midwives available to every MotherBaby. In answer to the need, with the help of many brave BirthKeepers, I founded Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) in Indonesia, and Wadah Philippines Foundation. We have built Medical Relief and childbirth clinics in Bali, Aceh (post 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami), Lombok, (after devastation of 2018 earthquakes), Papua (where black women suffer terrible disparities in care). In the Philippines we sustain childbirth clinics in Dulag, (in the aftermath of the super Typhoon Haiyan) and Palawan (highest known teen pregnancy rate on Earth). My Passion is culturally appropriate respect and Human Rights in Childbirth, and healthcare as a human right. My circle of support has been the astonishing Bumi Sehat team, plus my husband, Wil, and eight amazing grown and growing children (ages 46 to 16), I have six grandchildren, born gently into my hands.
  • Robin’s published books  (in Spanish, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Hungarian and English) include: After the Baby’s Birth, Wellness for Mothers, Ecology of Gentle Birth, Awakening Birth, Eating for Two... Recipes for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women, Placenta the Forgotten Chakra, Eat Pray Doula, The Geometry of Splitting Souls  (poetry, Blue Light Press), The Natural Family Planning Workbook… a lifestyle of nonviolence (with Marie Elena), Butterfly People (a novel), and many more in Bahasa Indonesia are available on-line. www.iburobin.com

Participation on Humanity Rising

Day 471 Fri 5/6/22 Part V: Healing and Healthcare for Babies, Children, Youth and Children of the Future