The Ones Who Hold the Flow. For the birth workers who know when to wait… and when to sway. She doesn’t direct the current— she walks alongside it. Ankle-deep in oxytocin… and ancient knowing. She watches the rhythm of a laboring body like a tide-watcher with no clock. She knows when to offer movement, and when to be still. When to lift a hip. Press a sacrum. Shift the lights. Or say nothing at all. She opens the room so the pelvis can open. She softens the space so the cervix can soften. With he