The Spanish custodian was in superlative form to help the Reds to a share of the spoils in the St Andrews stalemate, producing three world-class interventions in the first half to thwart headers from Cameron Jerome and Craig Gardner.
Reina admits he was satisfied with the outcome of a tense contest but was quick to play down the significance of his own contribution - instead highlighting the team's effort as a whole.
And the 28-year-old is backing Liverpool to build on their hard-earned point by going from strength-to-strength over the coming weeks as the new-look squad continues to gel.
"I am happy but we all helped to get a very good point," he said. "We could have lost the game, so we should be happy with the point.
"I've never beaten Birmingham in the league in five years and it is always difficult here. It has been a tough place for us. We never get proper results here.
"But let's look at it in a positive way. We have to go forward from here. We have to make sure that nobody is thinking of winning the league or anything like that at this moment.
"It is going to take a while. We have got to get used to the new players and then the system. Of course our target is to be up there but we have to be realistic.
"We will find out at the end of the season what we can achieve. Maybe it will take a while and we all have to be patient. April and May is the time to talk about targets."
He added: "Any away game is tough. We've had a difficult start - Arsenal, City away, Birmingham away, Manchester United next week.
"It is never going to be easy but we will see how we do in the Europa league first. We all believe. We just have to concentrate on the next game and take it from there."
Reina went into the clash in the Midlands on the back of a disappointing 45-minute run out for Spain against Argentina last week, in which he committed a costly error to allow Carlos Tevez to score one of three goals he conceded in a 4-1 defeat.
The 'keeper was also guilty of a mistake in Liverpool's opening-day draw with Arsenal last month, but he insists there was never any danger of him carrying any hangover from the slip-ups into the encounter with Birmingham.
He said: "How long did it take me to get over it (the mistake for Spain)? One hour. When you are a goalkeeper, you know that you will make brilliant saves and stupid mistakes.
"You have to handle everything that happens to you. Tomorrow, nobody will remember my saves or my mistakes. You just move on and play the next game as if nothing has happened.
"Sometimes 'keepers cost their teams points like I did in the first game; other times we get a bit lucky and pull one out for the team."
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