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Midwife

Robin Lim, born in 1956, is an outstanding midwife. She is renowned for her contributions in the field of medical aid, particularly in impoverished communities in Indonesia and the Philippines. Ms. Lim has extensive experience in assisting deliveries and caring for newborns, her work has saved countless lives and improved the health of women and children.

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“Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.”

Baby Birth Forgotten Significant Passages Childbirth

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“After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.”

“In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.”

Mom Grandma Midwife

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“My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.”

Knows Firsts Natural Path Feet Baby Birth Childbirth Having A Baby Midwife

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“I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.”

Passionate Seekers Childbirth

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“My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.”

World Country States America United Technology United States This World Baby Birth Died Pregnancy My Sister More Money Other Countries United States Of America

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“Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.”

Giving Mean Country States United Numbers United States Birth Rate Usa Expensive Mortality Pregnant Other Countries

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“There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.”

Two States Dies Three United United States Pregnancy Healthcare Ignored Calamity Childbirth

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“Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.”

Earth Dies Birth Related Pregnancy My Sister Complication

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“The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.”

World Numbers Around The World Data Collections Understated Data Collection

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“Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.”

Littles Suffering Speak Poverty Risk Population Native Minorities Immigrants Affected Prime Pregnant Native American Complication Pregnant Women

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“My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.”

Should Littles Has Beens Individual Interest Risk Should Have Doctors Died Minorities Cracks My Sister Should Have Been

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“My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.”

Children Stills Passion Study Path Baby Pursue My Passion Catching Here I Am Midwifery

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“I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.”

Saving Just One Devoted Save A Life Midwife

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“I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.”

Firsts Five Mom Birth Midwife

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“Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.”

Rich Share Birth Conversation Hug Making Love Hormones Good Conversation Oxytocin

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“Oxytocin rocks the world.”

World Rocks Oxytocin

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“As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.”

Night Day And Night Midwife Oxytocin

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“I love to receive babies into this world, so crawling around on my knees in the birth room is my best place, and most often you can still find me there.”

World Stills Rooms This World Baby Birth Knees Find Me Crawling Best Place

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“Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.”

Facts Born Research Capacity Foundation Trauma Love And Trust Capacity To Love

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“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.”

Made War Turns Individual Water Environment Air Land Healthy Protect Making Peace Stewards Air And Water Healthy Society

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“I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.”

Ifs Humans Earth Ability Love Is Essentials Species Conclusion Ability To Love

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“I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.”

Problem Source Birth Solutions Gentle Our Time Fierce

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“Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.”

Believe Mother I Believe Results Baby Birth Solutions Gentle Our Society Positive Change Mother And Baby

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“I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.”

Needs Feels Care Mother Crazy Baby Upset

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“I cry when I work in the garden, because the Sun, the rain, the wind and the Earth all work together to make us food and flowers. It just blows me away.”

Earth Together Sun Cry Wind Flower Rain Garden Blow Working Together

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“I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."”

Writing Believe I Can House I Believe Cry Clean I Believe In Believe In You Clean House I Believe In You

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“The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.”

Light Inspiration Baby Labor Heroic Truest

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“I get happy very easily and very often.”

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“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.”

Spirituality Inspiring Birth Profound Pregnancy Pregnant Childbirth Initiation Pregnant Women Midwife Were Pregnant Birthing Beautiful Pregnancy Birth Mother Birth Of A Child Natural Childbirth

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“Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.”

Men Pay Stronger Pay The Price

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“I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.”

World Humans Happens Born Imagine Willing Capacity Capacity To Love

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“Every baby's first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet”

World Should Firsts Earth Mother Strong Baby Birth Healthy Safe And Love Breaths Our World Peace And Love

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About the Author

Born: 1956
Known for: Midwife
Quotes: 33

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