Robin Lim Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Oxytocin rocks the world.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I get happy very easily and very often.

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

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

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

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.

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.

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