Little Sisters Salute:
Carriers of Life, Keepers of Future Worlds
They are not clients. They are not cases. They are not problems to be managed or numbers to be tracked.
They are our Little Sisters — Life-givers, world-builders, and sacred beings walking the ancient path of birth, rebirth, and becoming.
Each of them comes to us in a different season — Some with joy. Some with fear. Some with questions. Some already carrying deep wisdom.
But all of them carry the most powerful thing: Life. And the courage to bring it forward.
They say yes to being seen. They say yes to being held. They say yes to being loved in a way the systems never could. And in doing so, they invite us into a deeper kind of care — the kind that transforms everyone it touches.
🌼 “We said yes to ourselves…”
Words from the ones walking the sacred path:
“cuando más lo necesitaba nos siguen ayudando, es una buena fundación cumple lo que dicen y tratan de hacer lo posible para que estemos todos bien desde los grandes hasta los más pequeños de la casa.” — Melanie, Little Sister since 2023
“Durante los momentos más difíciles de mi vida, mi amiga hermana ha estado conmigo en las buenas y en las malas. Las hermanas me han apoyado en algunos de los momentos más difíciles..” — Francisca, Little Sister since 2022
“Nka tem nada de da. Mas pa sempre nta agradeci nhas irmas ki dja fazi td pa judam salva nha vida y de nha familia.”
— Cristina, Little Sister since 2023
We honor you. We witness you. We walk with you.
You are the center of this circle. You are the reason we gather. You are the ones birthing a new world.
🌺 Who Are Our Little Sisters?
Our Little Sisters are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who are pregnant or birthing in the South Coast region — many navigating systems that were never built for them to survive, let alone thrive.
Some are newly immigrated. All are impacted by the generational weight of structural racism that lingers in our neighborhoods, our institutions, and even in the air we breathe.
The South Coast carries scars — wounds from centuries of oppression that still shape the daily realities of our families today. From poverty and housing injustice to medical neglect and cultural erasure — our Little Sisters are birthing through it all.
In Massachusetts, BIPOC birthing people face a rate of severe maternal morbidity that is twice that of white mothers — a statistic that has only worsened over the last decade. This is not a coincidence. It is the result of systems doing exactly what they were designed to do.
And yet — our Little Sisters are still here. Still choosing to bring life into this world. Still resisting invisibility by simply surviving. And we believe they deserve more than survival — they deserve sacred care, joy, and community-powered liberation.
✨ How We Walk With Them
Our Little Sisters connect with us at all stages of pregnancy — ideally from preconception, but always when the spirit moves them. We honor their timing and begin our journey from wherever they arrive.
As part of this relationship, we invite our Little Sisters to share openly — their truths, their needs, their fears, and their wisdom. We do not extract this information — we receive it with reverence so we can ensure each Sister is connected to the resources, support, and spiritual care she deserves.
Through our SisterFriend Model, each Little Sister becomes the center of a circle. She is nurtured, witnessed, and honored through pregnancy, birth, and beyond — not just for her baby’s sake, but for her full, embodied restoration.
And when the time is right, many of our Little Sisters return — ready to become SisterFriends themselves, offering what they once received — completing the sacred cycle of Sisters Touching & Empowering Pregnant Sisters (STEP).
✨ SisterFriend Salute:
Carriers of Medicine, Keepers of the Village
They are not volunteers. They are not staff. They are not assistants to the work — They are the work.
They are our SisterFriends — the sacred companions who answer the call to walk beside our pregnant Sisters as they cross the threshold of birth, transformation, and return.
With steady hands, tender presence, and ancestral knowing, they hold space for our mothers — and for each other. They have felt the call in dreams, in memories, in their wombs, in their grief, in their becoming. And when it came… they answered. We honor them — for their courage, their devotion, and the everyday ways they choose liberation through love.
🌸 “We heard the call...”
A few words from the ones who said yes:
“I decided to serve as SF to pay forward and share amazing experiences and knowledge that I have gained in my motherhood journey so far. And to my best establish a safe and nurturing environment to my LS”
— Sister Sofia, SisterFriend since 2024
“I have attended over nine hundred births, and it truly never gets old. I am the descendent of economic migrants who came by boat to New Bedford seeking a safe place to raise their children. I joined SBV to help other families do the same..”
— Sister Maria, SisterFriend since 2024
“I became a SisterFriend because I wanted to help the women of color in my community which are usually the last to get proper attention. I felt if I could be there to advocate and be part of their maternal process in any way, it would be a blessing.”
— Sister Rosa, SisterFriend since 2022
We salute you. We praise you. We walk beside you.
You are the pulse of the Village. You are the arms of the revolution. You are the medicine we’ve been waiting for.
SisterFriends: Sacred Companions in the Lineage of Freedom
At Sacred Birthing Village, our SisterFriends walk in the ancestral footsteps of the Birthing Project USA, often honored as the Underground Railroad of our times. Just as our ancestors once led others from bondage to freedom, today’s SisterFriends walk with women — not out of physical captivity, but out of the isolation, trauma, and systemic harm that keeps us from fully living.
We are remembering, reclaiming, reviving, and restoring the sacred art of women being with one another — not as service providers or saviors, but as sisters, soul witnesses, and ceremonial companions.
In this journey, we return to what has always kept us alive: Sisterhood. Kinship. Presence. Ceremony. Love.
This is not charity. This is not performance. This is a healing, reciprocal relationship — where the one walking beside and the one being held both receive. Both are restored. Both are remembered.
Some of our SisterFriends arrive never having been witnessed themselves. They, too, carry wounds from unattended births, silenced transitions, and invisible labor. This path is their blessing too. As they pour into another, they are also poured into. This is the sacred exchange that heals the soul and nourishes the collective.
Our SisterFriends are:
Women of wisdom and lived experience
Bridge builders between needs and resources, between systems and sovereignty
Anchors of compassion, presence, and accountability
Carriers of medicine — sometimes in their hands, sometimes just in their quiet love
They commit approximately 8–10 hours per month, walking with their Little Sister from pregnancy to one full year postpartum, ensuring she is never alone as she crosses the thresholds of womanhood, motherhood, and rebirth.
This journey begins with a deep, guided training process — one that supports not just learning how to serve, but how to remember, how to root, and how to rise.
We do this one Sister, one threshold, one sacred step at a time.
The Village: We Tend Life Together
We have always known: It takes a Village.
Not just to raise a child — but to elevate a woman as she crosses the sacred threshold of birth and becomes again.
At Sacred Birthing Village, we believe that commUNITY is medicine. It is the spark. The soil. The song. It is how we return to mother-centered care as the foundation of family and collective wellness.
Our Village is not symbolic — it is real, it is relational, it is resourced.
We are:
Elders who carry ancestral memory
Fathers who are reclaiming their sacred role
Aunties, cousins, and kin offering meals, prayers, and soft hands
Practitioners, healers, birthkeepers, knowledge keepers, and wisdom-holders
People who understand that when mothers are well, the world becomes well
Together, we catch life, hold grief, sing over transformation, and create safety — not just for one, but for all.
We do this because we know: Our community cannot be whole unless our mothers, fathers, and families are whole. And we do not wait for systems to change — we gather, we build, we remember.
Through communal care, we bring forth what our ancestors handed down and what our future generations deserve. Together, we are paving the way for thriving families, thriving births, and thriving Black and Brown communities.