About the Midwives
Why Midwifery?
You deserve to be fully seen, trusted, and honored. The care you receive from a midwife empowers and gives you full autonomy over your health and choices. Birth is viewed as a profound and healthy function of the body and not a medical condition or illness to be managed. Midwives carefully monitor the progress of pregnancy and labor and recommend appropriate management should complications arise. Licensed midwives are trained and prepared for unlikely emergencies but trust in birth and your body’s innate wisdom.
Our Mission
At Born Wild Midwifery, we believe birth is a sacred, instinctive, and transformative experience. Our mission is to provide compassionate, evidence-based, and deeply personalized care that honors the wisdom, strength, and sovereignty of each birthing woman.
We are committed to being a grounded, steady presence at your birth—a safety net if things don’t go according to plan. We trust your intuition as deeply as we trust our own, and we believe that birth doesn’t need to unfold perfectly to remain safe at home. With skilled hands and calm hearts, we support you through the wild unknown, holding space for the mystery and the medicine of birth.
Whether at home, in water, or under the stars, we walk beside you as you birth your way—wild, powerful, and fully supported.
Sophia Henderson
My name is Sophia, and I’m a Licensed Midwife serving families throughout Sonoma County. I’ve been supporting women in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for over 16 years, ever since I apprenticed with a community homebirth midwife and stepped fully into the work I knew was mine from childhood.
I’ve had the honor of supporting over 400 families through empowering, physiologic home births. Each birth has shaped my philosophy and deepened my belief in the strength, intuition, and wisdom of birthing women.
At the heart of my practice is a simple truth: your autonomy matters. My role is to offer skilled, evidence-based midwifery care while honoring your voice, your values, and your unique path into motherhood.
I live in beautiful Sonoma County with my husband and our two children, spending our days exploring, staying active, and soaking in this season of life.
Lea Ritter
I am honored to call myself a Mother and Authentic Midwife. My home is in the quiet, bohemian town of Fairfax with my daughters, June and Sienna.
My passion for birth work began at a young age, I was born at home and was taught to view birth as a joyous family event. I have always been drawn to spaces where women are in their full power. I feel at home in the radical and profound world of untamed pregnancy, birth, and mothering.
I birthed June at the hospital and Sienna in a birth tub at home. These two different births enable me to have a personal understanding of both choices.
My formal training includes 4 years of homebirth apprenticeship as well as international work in both Germany and Haiti. I was a staff midwife and clinical instructor in Salt Lake City Utah before moving back to the Bay Area in 2014.I serve families throughout the Bay Area including Marin, Sonoma, Contra Costa counties, and San Francisco. As well as a Midwife I am a certified yoga instructor specializing in pregnancy and body image.
I strive to always practice from the heart.
Serving as a midwife is the greatest privilege of my life.
My home birth experience with Sophia was better than I could have ever imagined. I’m so thankful for her and her team! My pregnancy and delivery experiences were smooth, manageable, stress-free, enjoyable, peaceful… all around positive. Another perk my husband loved best was that he could be there for every appointment as they all took place in our home.
