Our team of doulas & creative visual storytellers

About Wildwood Birth Collective

Of course, we love babies, but let us show you how supporting new families changes the world!

We are a team of professional, certified birth workers supporting women, birthing people, and their families throughout the perinatal experience. Our trainings are vast and include support in almost every aspect of the childbearing year. Birth work is very much a calling that each of us has heeded on our own unique paths, but our values are shared and upheld in every part of our work. We have regular community meetings and continuing education events to stay apprised of the most up-to-date evidence-based research to share with each other and our clients. We’re driven to bring the concept of community into reality, especially during the childbearing year, and shattering the real or perceived isolation that so often accompanies becoming a new parent. 

Our Mission Statement: The mission of Wildwood Birth is to provide evidence-based physical, emotional, and informational support and creative storytelling services to support pregnant people and their families in having a safe, empowered, and beautifully documented birth experience. Our vision is to improve perinatal outcomes and to help change the culture around birth: to mitigate trauma, improve health outcomes, and support families to step into parenthood with confidence and a community of support around them. We do this by providing comprehensive education, deep, responsive, and culturally competent listening and presence, and creative storytelling that reveals and celebrates the truth, beauty, and power of birth for all bodies and people. 

Our Core Values:

• Accessibility. We offer some of the lowest prices in Portland because we believe that all perinatal families who want doula support should be able to have it.

• Sustainability. Our doulas are compensated generously for their support services. We value strong personal self-care routines, healthy work-life boundaries, and providing a safe space to support each other in our careers.

• We offer non-judgmental and unconditional support

• We provide heart-centered, evidence-based information and resources

• We uplift body image acceptance and celebration of all bodies before, during, and after birth

• We perpetuate holistic physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health

• We believe that community support improves wellbeing 

• We practice transparent, non-violent communication skills and active listening with our clients and each other

• Our doulas display professionalism, integrity, and reliability

• We work actively to combat racism, implicit biases, and oppression in systems we work in, within our company and community, and within ourselves

• We support LGBTQIA2S+ families

• We support Health at Every Size

• We support ALL pregnancy outcomes and experiences

We take this work to heart - we realize that who you choose to have by your side during this profound journey is an honor and a great responsibility. We humbly, gratefully, and ecstatically look forward to serving you and your family.

We are certified labor and postpartum doulas through Birthingway College of Midwifery, DONA, and Cornerstone Doula Trainings.