A personal story from Ibu Robin Lim
I began to feel and get to know my Inner Knowing, when I was expecting my first baby, as a teenager. Riding my bicycle one drizzly morning, rushing to my freshman college classes, my bike chain fell off. My pregnant belly was so big that I could not bend down to fix it, My rear tire was stuck tightly between the railroad tracks, a dangerous situation that would have normally made me give-up and cry inconsolably by the side of the road, while the next train smashed my beloved bike.
But then, a resonance with the entire universe that my Baby and I occupied, began to rise like a song in my heart. As if my Baby said, “It’s all OK mom, I got you covered.” Suddenly, an elder man, wearing tatters and a scruffy beard, came to sweep and my bicycle off of the railroad tracks. The rain suddenly stopped, clouds parted and the sun came out to shine on this ancient man’s toothless smile. He quickly fixed my bike chain, “Better be off to school little mother.” he said.
I stammered, “But how did you know I am a student, and where did you come from?”
“Well,” he answered with a wink, “Your Baby Girl told me.”
Off I sped to school, on my bicycle that seemed to fly and navigate the roads effortlessly. Each day after that I searched the railroad tracks, on my way to and from school, hoping to see my Angel. I never did see him again. But that experience switched on something that had been brewing deep inside of me. My Inner Knowing was activated.
From that moment I knew without ultrasound that my baby would be a girl. I knew her birth would be wonderful. I felt my strength and wisdom grow. I knew that this Baby would be my teacher, my Guru. From that day forward I began to truly TRUST in the Kindness of all Creation. My Inner Knowing gave me, and this Baby, a secure place in the dance of all things.
As my life unfolded there were millions of coincidences, miracles really, but somehow on that day, I became a mOM and a BirthKeeper, because I began to BELIEVE in the Miracle of Life.
Especially now, as our planet is suffering and our species and all species face extinction, we need ALL mothers to unfold as Wise Women. While looking for solutions, learn from many teachers, but trust the teachers who BELIEVE in YOU.
In partnership with your BABY and your partner, midwife or doctor and doulas, find your own INNER KNOWING to lead you to the most gentle, ecological, organic way you may birth, breastfeed and parent your child. Embrace the responsibility of being a wise woman.
Our very survival in this fast approaching future depends upon the wise decisions of Mothers.
Love, Ibu Robin Lim