Building a Gentle Birth Center at the Edge of the World with Rachel and Chetana
About this episode
Rachel shares her journey of establishing a midwife-led birth center in Papua after her transformative birth experience in Bali.
In this warm and deeply moving episode, host Chetana sits down with Rachel — a mother, visionary, and midwifery student from Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia — who turned her own transformative birth experience into a mission to bring gentle, dignified birth care to one of the most underserved regions in the world. Rachel shares how a VBAC at Bumi Sehat in Bali — under the care of the legendary Ibu Robin Lim — changed the entire course of her life. Returning home to Papua, she and her husband Ronald built AHBS (Angel Hiromi Bumi Sehat Papua) from the ground up: starting with just a plot of land, moving their own furniture into the building, and slowly gathering the equipment, midwives, and mentorship needed to open their doors in December 2019. This episode is a love letter to the women of Papua — and to everyone who believes that every mother, no matter where she lives, deserves to be treated like a goddess. In this episode we cover: Rachel's first C-section, and the longing for a normal birth that led her to Robin Lim in Bali What a VBAC at Bumi Sehat felt like — and why it changed everything The founding of Angel Hiromi Bumi Sehat (AHBS) - the only midwife-led birth center in Papua…
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