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Since the birth of my first child I have felt deeply and passionately about birth and about every woman's right to give birth in dignity and power. My birth experiences were empowering and deeply transformative for me. In all the years since that time I have carried within me a deep trust in my body's amazing abilities, strengths, and wisdom. As a doula my goal is to help familiarize you with the natural process of birth; and to empower and encourage you so that you feel prepared and confident in your ability to meet the physical and emotional challenges of labor. Throughout labor and birth I am there to offer labor-coping techniques, guidance and support, a calm, reassuring presence, and to ensure that your baby is received in an atmosphere of awareness, sensitivity and love. It is an honor and a joy to assist women in birth, and I strive with an open heart to bring just what is needed to each occasion.
Vicky York, IBCLC, CPD - (541) 255-6368 -
vmyork@peoplepc.com Jennifer Webster: CD (DONA) - (541) 689-0085 -Breithathas@hotmail.com - www.Birthingjoy.net My passion is empowering women to know and trust their bodies. I see childbirth as a normal and healthy event with real emotional and physical challenges. It is a powerful time for women as they tune into their bodies and learn to trust in their strength, abilities, and intuition. As a doula, I support women during pregnancy by providing information and support so that they (and their partners) can trust the process of childbirth and gain confidence in their ability to meet the challenges of labor. During labor I use a variety of techniques to provide emotional support and physical comfort to the laboring woman as well as to partners and other family members who are present. Every woman deserves a beautiful birth. My job is to ensure that women have knowledge and confidence they need to have a safe and healthy birth and to create an experience that is meaningful to them (and their partners/family). Rosetta Thuresson: Dip. H; (541) 998-5782 rosetta@mamarosenaturals.com - www.mamarosesnaturals.com
Kara Spencer, LMT, CD - (541) 434-0474 - maiahealingarts(at)gmail.com - www.MaiaHealingArts.com
Marina Ormes - (541) 465-1269 - marina@efn.org I first became interested in working as a doula 10 years ago while studying herbal medicine. I saw an opportunity to make a long-term positive impact by helping not only birthing women and their partners, but the human beings they are birthing and the families they are becoming. As a non-denominational minister, I have experience offering counseling and support to clients who seek a non-religious or non-denominational connection to spirit. As a mother of two, I draw on my own experiences in addition to my years of experience as a doula. In all of my work, my purpose is to support my clients in their personal challenges; to help them discover more about themselves and their strengths. As your doula, I bring my training and experience as well as my warmth and ability to sense what is needed. I follow your lead for how best to support you, whether that is by offering you information, perspective, physical support, a listening ear, or simply being present as your process unfolds. Debra Catlin, CD (DONA) - (541) 998-3380 - debcatlin@aol.com Debra Catlin has provided education and support services to parents and professionals for 18 years. She is an ICEA Certified Childbirth and Postnatal Educator, and a DONA Certified Birth Doula and approved Trainer. She has been a Childbirth and Parenting Instructor at Sacred Heart Medical Center, Eugene, Oregon, since 1996, and a Staff Instructor at Oregon Midwifery School from 1994-2000. Catlin has facilitated support groups and services for women experiencing postpartum depression for over 10 years. She is a mother of four, including twins, and is also a co-author of the book Mothering Twins, published in 1993.
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I have served over 500 families since 1992 as a postpartum doula and
have been a lactation consultant since 2000. I taught CAPPA
postpartum trainings for four years and continue to teach classes in
newborn care and breastfeeding classes geared toward new moms, dads
and grandmothers. I'm a published poet and author of articles
relating to the postpartum time. I'm experienced with postpartum
depression, multiples, preemies and LGTB couple support. As a
mother of two and a grandmother of three my goal as a postpartum
doula is to show the new mother that her own instincts work. I teach
her to trust herself to experiment intuitively and discover for
herself how to read her baby's cues and invent her own personal
solution to challenges without excess external information.
The
incredibly powerful experience of childbirth has influenced my life
from the moment I entered the world. One day in a fleeting moment I
realized my life’s passion, that ‘I am a doula.’ I have been an
advocate for women and children throughout my personal and
professional career in various capacities, both locally and
internationally. After the birth of my child, I became deeply
fascinated in the natural health and well being of babies and
mothers, and in traditional methods of childbirth. I am now an
Herbal Practitioner, specializing in pregnancy, birth, postpartum,
and infant care, and founded the baby and mama care company, Mama
Rose’s Naturals. I fully appreciate and embrace the opportunity to
provide support, information, and choices to mothers, encouraging
them to listen to their own inner strength and wisdom. It is my
honor to assist families throughout the unique and miraculous
experience of greeting a new life into their world.
I
am dedicated to enhancing whole family health through doula care,
bodywork, and education. I am a birth and
postpartum doula, certified pregnancy massage therapist, childbirth educator, and mother. As a
doula, I have experience with birth at home, birth centers, and
hospitals, as well as special circumstances such as waterbirth,
twins, adoption, and alternative families. I have been a doula and
massage therapist, specializing in prenatal and postpartum massage,
since 1998. I am skilled in bodywork, acupressure, reflexology,
hydrotherapy, acutonics, and the rebozo for labor facilitation and
pre- and perinatal well-being. I am
dedicated to providing women-centered care that nurtures the mother
through holistic healing arts and evidence-based practices. My goal
is for every woman to make informed, conscious choices regarding her
birth and well-being, and for every parent and baby to be supported
and nurtured through this incredible time. I am the North
American Director of Birth Arts International Doula Education
Programs and the founder of the Birth Ecology Project,
www.birthecology.org. 