Robin Lim

Ibu (mother) Robin is a Certified Professional Midwife, with the North American Registry of midwives and Ikatan Bidan Indonesia.  She is a founder and executive director for Yayasan Bumi Sehat, a not for profit organization in Indonesia.  

Lim splits her time between the Bumi Sehat Birth Center in Bali and the Tsunami Relief Clinic in Samatiga Aceh, Sumatra. Along with receiving babies, Ibu Robin is an author. Her childbirth books: After the Baby’s Birth  a guide for postpartum women, Eating for Two... Recipes for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women and Placenta.. the Forgotten Chakra. are available on line by clicking here.

Also the genre of health Lim penned ASI Eksklusif Dong, Anak Alami and Ibu Alami, these books are in Bahasa Indonesia and may be downloaded free.gratis here.

Ibu Robin's novel: Butterfly People is available via Anvil Publishers in the Philippines. Click here. 

Ibu Robin's newest book is poetry: The Geometry of Splitting Souls, written to commemorate the Mothers of our world.

Ibu Robin’s support and inspiration is her family, husband Wil, and eight astounding children, ages 35 to 5.  Lim’s Filipino Grandmother, Vicenta Munar Lim, was a traditional birth attendant in the Baguio mountain region of Luzon, Philippine Islands.  Before during and after WWII she served as a healer and baby catcher for her people.  Just as Lim’s “Lola” passed her family tradition of hands-on healing down to her, Lim is already training her granddaughter, Zhouie, in the art and passion of midwifery and service to humanity.  Ibu Robin has three grandchildren, all born into her hands.  

Ibu Robin was named the CNN Hero of the year for 2011.