Resources
Scroll below to explore a list of resources and specialists that are available to help you throughout your reproductive year and postpartum.
Nutrition + Wellness
⦿ WIC — Special supplemental nutrition program providing healthy foods, nutrition education and breastfeeding support to low-income families in Multnomah County.
⦿ SNAP — Food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
Body Workers + Yoga
⦿ Tender Evolution — As a somatics based yoga therapist, Megan Peterson offers prenatal, postpartum yoga sessions.
⦿ From Your Center — Shana Celnicker-Chong offers a wide range of pre and post-natal support and education, plus yoga and movement classes, workshops, private sessions and retreats.
Labor + Birth
⦿ Tender Evolution — Inclusive and comprehensive in-person childbirth education taught from a mindfulness perspective by Megan Peterson, a queer and non-binary doula. Classes are held at their private yoga studio in Milwaukie, OR.
⦿ Wildwood Birth — Self paced online childbirth education course that covers the wide range of birthing topics.
⦿ The Birth Partner by Penny Simpkin — This book is a great place for expecting parents and their birth partner(s) to start doing their own research and planning for their upcoming birth.
Infant Feeding
⦿ The Lactation Network — Online search hub to connect parents with IBCLCs in their area.
⦿ Cascadia Lactation — Ashley and Koali are IBCLCs serving Portland and surrounding areas. They are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Regence and Anthem and offer visits to your home, virtually or at the Canyon Medical Center.
⦿ Doula My Soul — IBCLC supporting families in the Portland Metro area and Southwest Washington. They can provide a superbill to submit to insurance for reimbursement.
⦿ Kelly Mom — Online resource with an extensive library of articles for breastfeeding families.
Culturally Specific
⦿ Community Doula Alliance — CDA is a community based doula organization committed to providing racially and linguistically diverse doulas for underrepresented birthing families.
⦿ Black Parent Initiative — BPI is a community based, non-profit organization supporting Black and African American families with children ages 0-10.
⦿ Healthy Birth Initiative — Services providing access to health care and ongoing support to pregnant Black and African American people and their families before and after birth.
⦿ Doulas Latinas International — This book is a great place for expecting parents and their birth partner(s) to start doing their own research and planning for their upcoming birth.
For Full Spectrum Birth Workers (Doulas)
⦿ Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings — BADT is a Black-owned, queer-run doula training organization whose mission is to be socially conscious, culturally appropriate, diverse, and action-oriented.
⦿ Cornerstone Birthwork Training — Cornerstone is a collaborative, educational community hub that provides full spectrum, intersectional birthworker trainings rooted in harm reduction, inclusivity and reproductive justice.
⦿ Traditional Health Worker — Become registered with the state of Oregon as a THW to bill OHP for your clients who have Medicaid.