One of my great-great-great-grandmothers was a midwife in a village in Eastern Europe in the 19th century (100% Catholic village). The infant mortality rate was high and many babies died soon after birth—she was trained to baptize babies who were in danger of death. Often there wasn’t time to summon a priest, let alone wait to take the baby to church to be baptized.
Which is ABSOLUTELY canonically sound, bishop or no bishop.
I wish more of the faithful were willing to (when necessary) ignore the bishop and defend the Faith.