The Sovereign Birth Worker

Serving Women, Not Systems.

I don’t manage birth. I will protect it.

This work is not about protocols, policies, or performance.
It’s not about checking boxes or deferring to authority.
It’s about showing up — fully — for women.
With presence. With skill. With reverence.
We support mostly with our hearts — and sometimes with our hands.

Sovereign birth work is about remembering what birth truly is: sacred, instinctive and powerful beyond measure.
It’s about walking with women — not ahead of them, not above them.
It’s about trust. Not fear.
Witnessing — not interfering.

I’ve supported all kinds of births — fast ones, slow ones, stormy ones, silent ones.
Each one unique. Each one holy.
Some needed extra support.
And still, none of them were emergencies.

Not one.

I’ve seen what the system would call a crisis:
Hemorrhage. Retained placenta.
Irregular labor patterns. Stalled labor.
Meconium. Long transitions before a first breath.
Preeclampsia. Partial placental detachments.
Long pushing stages. Dystocia’s and
Births that unfolded over days.

And still — I did not see emergencies.
I saw women doing what they were made to do.
I saw bodies that knew the way.

Because when you don’t panic...
When you don’t scare the mother...
When you trust the process and carry skills that have been passed down for generations...
Birth stays where it belongs.

At home.
Safe.
Sacred.
Sovereign.

We don’t need machines to tell us what we already know.
We don’t need surveillance to create a false sense of control.
We don’t need to interrupt what is unfolding perfectly

What we need is presence.
What we need is trust.
Because fear is the real danger in birth — not the process itself.
And when we remove the fear, what’s left is power.

I didn’t learn this in a classroom.
I learned it beside women — in real time, in real homes, where birth actually happens.
On the floor, in the quiet, in the chaos, in the stillness.
With blood on my hands, vernix on my shirt, and reverence in my heart.

I leave every birth forever changed.
Often in the same clothes I’ve been in for days.
With more trust in our bodies — and in the power of every woman — than I had the day before.
Each birth deepens my faith in God, in our design, in our unshakable blueprint for life.
This work leaves me cracked open and put back together again.. every single time.
Whether short and sweet or long and intense, every birth reminds me: this is holy ground.

And I don’t walk this path alone.

I walk alongside other birth companions — women who have chosen this calling too.
We laugh, we cry.
We sort through the sacred in the spaces no one sees —  in dark kitchens, in bedroom doorways and driveways at dawn.
We do coffee runs and cry in cars.
We share our snacks and our stories.
We miss our families.
We hold space, and we hold each other.

And we wouldn't change a thing.

We are sisters in this work.

We walk with these mothers and witness every miracle as it unfolds.
We see the birth of a new family.
A big sister rises.
A woman is changed -strong, radiant, and never the same.
And in those quiet, holy moments...
When we witness what becomes possible when fear is gone and design is trusted -
Babies are born to mothers who are not afraid, mothers who know their power.

This is sovereign birth work.

This Conference isn’t just about birth.
It’s about life itself and about reclaiming what was nearly lost, and remembering what has always been true.

With love,


Christina Rigutto
Co-founder Reclaming Birth Conference
@wild.spirit.birth