what we’re about
We want you to know that while we know a lot about pregnancy, birth, lactation, and parenting, we also recognize that we will never have all of the answers for you or know what the “right choice” is for you to make. The right choice for you is whatever works for your unique family and meets your individual needs, and sometimes that means you’ll be making choices that we would not make for ourselves or our own families. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s our belief that our clients are the ones in charge of the type of education and support we provide, not the other way around.
We approach our work through a trauma-informed lens, which means that we will treat you with compassion and individualized care. We advocate for single parents, gestational carriers, surrogates, and adoptive parents, individuals with disabilities, survivors of intimate partner violence, financially disadvantaged families, and queer families, as many of these things we identify with on personal levels, so they are near and dear to our own experiences navigating the maternity care system and our roles as humans and parents.
We work to de-stigmatize mental health issues, substance use and addiction, maternal age, and body image expectations, because these are common barriers for folks and we are all about removing barriers and helping you step into your own power as a parent.
It’s important for us to take a firm stance about our aim to practice as anti-racist and pro-LGBTQIAS2+ birth workers, which means we are committed to life long learning and personal reflection about how we interact with the world and the way we provide services to the families that we work with. We acknowledge that this is a continual learning process that is ever evolving for us as individuals and as a team.
No matter what your family looks like or what your own personal goals are, we are here to walk alongside you, trusting you with your own parenting intuition, and supporting you in your own informed decision making process.
So what are we about? We are about YOU. Period.
what is a Doula?
Serving the Mid Willamette Valley
Salem, Silverton, Stayton, Newberg, Albany, and surrounding area
We have experience supporting parents through VBAC, medicated and unmedicated vaginal/pelvic births, planned and unplanned cesarean births, hospital births, birthing centers, and home births.
Happily accepting out-of-pocket payment, OHP, payment plans, economic justice pricing, and bartering!