Robin is a CNN Hero!

Robin Lim became a midwife after her sister died from complications during pregnancy. Since 2003, she and her team in Indonesia have helped thousands of low-income women have a healthy pregnancy and birth. Read More.

Please visit the links above to read more about Ibu Robin Lim's CNN Heroes nomination.

Ibu Robin was a featured speaker at the TedxUbud conference in Ubud on May 6, 2011. Watch the video on Youtube!

Midwife Robin Lim Operates Birthing Clinic To Help Expectant Mothers Survive In Indonesia

Robin Lim wanted to reinvent herself. After suffering the loss of both her sister and her best friend in the same year, she and her husband moved to Bali, Indonesia to find a new life.

Balinese Natural Birthing Center Threatened by Global Downturn

Mid-wife and clinic founder Robin Lim is a legend in the world of women's maternity health. I have heard of her from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to New-York to Denpasar. Recently I received a note that her natural birthing clinic in Bali known as Bumi Sehat ("healthy mother earth") is in desperate need of operating funds.

Robin Lim: Gentle birth warrior for women and children

"Sorry. I haven't slept. We had five babies born overnight," says midwife Robin Lim greeting a couple who last night gave birth to their second child. The baby was born under the protection of Lim's vision for a three-pronged approach to childbirth - culture, nature and science - practiced by the Indonesian midwives at the Nyuh Kuning birthing clinic in Bali, run by Yayasan Bumi Sehat, or Healthy Mother Earth Foundation.

My Sister, A Statistic of Shame

If you google ‘Christine Jehle Kim,’ you will not find that she was a mother of two who had just been accepted into medical school --or, if things had been different: that she was a mother of three graduated from medical school.  But what you will find is that she was memorialized on the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, the heart-child of midwife Ina May Gaskin.

Robin Lim nominated for 2011 Kick Andy Hero!

Robin Lim adalah bidan profesional yang telah tergabung dalam North American Registry of Midwives dan Asosiasi Perbidanan Indonesia (Indonesian Midwifery Association).

Midwifery today has blessed us with many pieces mentioning Robin, to look at the bank of them, follow this link.

The Guerrilla Midwife
Article by Robin Lim's daughter and Guerrilla Midwife filmmaker, Deja Bernhardt, for mother's day. Beautiful account of growing up the daughter of a midwife. May 2011.

Ibu Robin Lim & The Bumi Sehat Foundation

In Indonesian Ibu means mother and Ibu Robin Lim is a mother in every sense of the word…birth mother to 5 children, 2 children she was blessed with after their mother, a close friend tragically died and mother to one further young girl who was given to Robin and her husband Wil as a dying baby, but who today is a happy and healthy 4 and a half year old…8 beautiful, much loved children. These are Robin’s literal children… but countless other children, their mothers, families and communities have also been helped and blessed by the mother in Robin Lim.

Half-Angel Robin Lim: A Midwife from Iowa Delivers Babies in Bali
We're sitting on the balé, a raised pavilion in the middle of a family compound in Mas, a woodcarver's village. Ibu ("mother") Ketut sits on the edge, legs spread over a cloth to soak up amniotic fluid. Robin received Ketut's first baby, a girl of six with scars on her legs from a cooking oil accident. Robin puts her ear to Ketut's half-moon belly. The baby's fine.

        

Robin Lim and Bumi Sehat: 
A lesson on welcoming life with love

In 2006 the maternal mortality in child birth, in Indonesia, was the highest amongst the member states of ASEAN. In Bali alone, the mortality ratio during child birth was double that of the country. A large part of these deaths which occur during pregnancy and childbirth are preventable through proper hygiene, pre-natal care and nutrition. simple matters to most of us yet often overlooked, or worse, unavailable in this part of the world.

Filipino Version of Chaos Theory: A Short Review of Robin Lim’s Butterfly People

It’s not easy to write a review for Butterfly People.
Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t say it’s a difficult read. Just, well, confusing. Robin Lim used a narrative voice that is easy to understand. No highfaluting adjectives and adverbs, no long streams of consciousness designed to confuse readers in between sentences that are five lines long. The context is pretty easy to relate to, especially if the reader is a Filipino, or better yet, a Filipino who is interested in historical fiction.

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I can't say enough wonderful things about Robin Lim, an American-born woman who runs the Bumi Sehat Foundation, based in Ubud. Robin is an extraordinary midwife who has dedicated her life to supporting the mothers and babies of Indonesia.
 

UNIFEM
Ibu Robin Lim: "Gentle Birthing"

Ibu Robin Lim is a professional midwife, with a passion for delivering babies gently. Lim couples modern methods with ancient rituals during the delicate labour process to etch a lasting impact on the baby and mother. The way a baby is brought into the world greatly affects the way he turns out, says Lim.

Robin Lim, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Robin Lim Support Organization – Before the tsunami of December 2004, Lim was living in Indonesia, serving as a midwife and advocate for safe birth practices and health care. She established basic sanitation and universal AIDS prevention in the hospital in Bali. After the tsunami, Lim focused her efforts on assisting emergency medical teams. Her husband and grown children, originally from Iowa in the United States, are full-time volunteers for her birthing work, and live in Indonesia.

Bali Ibu Robin Lim, un’ostetrica speciale
Tre anni dopo lo tsunami le ferite sono ancora tante. Accanto alle donne l’assistenza dell’associazione no profit Yayasan Bumi Sehat fondata nel 1994
Tiziana Bartolini

SIFF 2011

"Guerilla Midwife"
Dir: Deja Bernhardt
(Documentary, USA/Indonesia) Follows Ibu Robin Lim into the trenches of her work in Indonesia. From Bali, where hemorrhage after childbirth is a leading cause of death. This heart-wrenching documentary  shows you why we  must reinvent our protocols for pregnancy and childbirth in order to preserve our Planet’s Humanity.

Bumi Sehat: An organization supporting births in a whole community in Bali

By Ela Forest


In a region with one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, one organization is working with the community to provide not only safe and healthy maternity services to low-income women; they are working to improve living standards throughout the community for women and children alike.

Pesan Cinta dari Nyuh Kuning


Alfred Ginting



Sri berjalan agak gontai. Dia baru melahirkan bayi laki-laki di Klinik Bumi Sehat, dua hari lewat. Wajah ibu muda itu masih terlihat lelah. Siang itu dia akan pulang ke rumah.