Mother Tree Doula Services

Posted • 📣Mother Tree Doula Services has 25 scholarships available for BIPOC in the Portland-area to become birth doulas. This 9 month PAID program will put you among some of the region’s leaders in reproductive health and business experts access with birth and business mentorship. Participants will attend 3 births, where they will be paid $750 for each one amounting to a total stipend of $2,250.

Altogether, the resources received in this program are valued at $7,000!

Research proves that doulas are one of the leading ways to improve birth outcomes not just in the delivery room, but throughout the pregnancy journey. Oregon leads the nation in doula care and innovation. Now is one of the most exciting times to join the movement for not just one of the most vital roles in our state right now, but one of the most rewarding.

Spaces are limited and applications remain open until August or when the 25 doulas. Follow QR code in the flier or click here to find out more information and apply today: https://bit.ly/4elaPat

Congratulations to our Fall 2023 Doula Business Incubator Graduate Terra Presley, founder of Zurima PDX (www.zurimapdx.com). Terra is a dedicated professional in the realm of women’s health and has served hundreds of clients as a Certified Lactation Counselor, Childbirth Educator and THW Doula. Terra is a recipient of the Prosper Portland Inspiring Diversity grant and is passionate about maternal wellbeing —empowering expecting families by supporting them through hands on birth support , education and feeding newborns.

Today is my 45th Doula-versary. I supported my mom birthing my brother in an unassisted birth when I was 7. Today is now Penny Simkin's death-day. I have known Penny my entire professional doula career for over 20+ years. I spent hours in her home learning to be a doula. She was one of my greatest personal mentors. I called her on numerous occasions. Having though many times, "what would Penny do?" Her grace, compassion and wisdom will pass on through the countless doulas who come after her. I secretly thought of her as the Yoda of birth. May the spiral gift her with all the grace of her legacy. ❤ Penny Simkin Photo by

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Welcome this powerful group of new doulas to our profession!

Posted • 🌀In this one day workshop for birth workers, you will:

✨Shift from just sharing information to mentoring your clients to access their own inner wisdom.

✨Let go of feeling like you need to know everything or get it right all the time to have something valuable to offer.

✨Move beyond just being a good listener to how to ask good questions that help clients find real insights and lasting solutions.

✨Prepare parents for the transformation of birth, not just a medical event.

🗓️Join us in Portland, Oregon March 2nd from 9 to 4pm for this engaging, dynamic workshop experience, led by BfW trainer Christine D’Esposito. Register at the link in our bio!

🤓This course offers 7 hrs of BfW CEU’s
💻A library of digital resources is included.

Posted • El pasado domingo 19 de Noviembre tuvimos un encuentro educativo y recreativo con las doulas de las diferentes cohortes que CEADOULA ha formado durante el año 2023. En esta ocasión disfrutamos del hermoso espacio que gentilmente nos cedió en la persona de quien siempre apoya nuestras actividades y a quien agradecemos enormemente su amoroso gesto.

También queremos agradecer a nuestra querida doula y compañera de camino Lic. Yordana Durán de por la motivadora clase de Biodanza y su importancia en el embarazo, quien nos deleitó con tan importante información y logró despertar muchos sentimientos en las participantes.

A todos ustedes infinitas gracias, esperamos que tengan unas bonitas festividades y que el próximo año sea de mucha prosperidad y venga lleno bendiciones para todos.

It’s a wrap! Postpartum doula training Cohort 10.23. Next sessions live zoom Dec 15-17 and in-person (PortlandOR) Jan 15-17. 👶🏻👩🏾‍🍼🧑‍🍼

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Calling anyone and everyone in the birth justice space! We want to hear from YOU.

As philanthropic support and impact investing continue to find their way to birth justice, Elephant Circle is engaging with the central questions connected to our movement's vitality and sustainability, making sense of what’s happening in our landscape so we can proactively plan and strategize. As a community-based effort, we need YOUR VOICE to inform this work.

Complete the Birth Justice Survey here: https://forms.gle/95MocCLujPsDyfuA8

Through this survey, we seek to:
•Understand your role in the birth justice movement
•Describe the networks and alliances within the birth justice movement
•Map the services and strategies offered to people in the perinatal period and their sustainability
•Describe the funding needs of the birth justice movement and how funding for various services and strategies may impact it
We are circulating this survey in collaboration with these community partners:
National Black Midwives AllianceAlliance
Southern Birth Justice NetworkNetwork
Holistic Birth Collective
The Bridge Directory: MEMBERS ONLY Birth Professionals
Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition
Birth Center Equity
The Birthing Place

Elephant Circle Indra Lusero

And with the support of these funders:
Orchid Capital Collective and Perigee Foundation

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https://msmagazine.com/2023/10/04/obstetric-racism-black-women-childbirth-maternal-health-discrimination/

So proud that Indra Lusero is both friend and family and Justice Fighter. An important read!

The First Tool to Name Obstetric Racism Might Finally Push Policymakers Into Action - Ms. Magazine Maternal mortality and medical racism affect pregnant Black women and postpartum people. The U.S. must stop obstetric racism and obstetric violence.

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Such a beautiful turnout at our biannual Adventist /Gateway meet and greet. The doulas, midwives and nurses all got to meet and do some skills sessions in a birth room. If you are a newer doula looking for more mentorship and births consider joining Gateway Doula Grouo. We offer THW/Private doula leads all over the metro area and on-call shifts with the Adventist Midwives and the sidelying birth center and THW Billing Hub for our THW doula members. Www.gatewaydoulagroup.org

1 Mississippi. 2 Mississippi 3 Mississippi 4 Mississippi 5 Mississippi 6 Mississippi 7 Mississippi 8 Mississippi 9 Mississippi 10 Mississippi. A person can die. Be murdered. Be assaulted. Be violated. Be restrained. Be scared. Be forever changed and hurt in under 10 seconds.

I wrote about what happened and is still happening to Jenni Hermoso in today’s FM Weekly. As a survivor, writer, and activist, I rage at every headline calling it a “kiss” instead of an assault, I scream at every reiteration of r**e culture in the court of public opinion, and I seethe at every single trope of misogyny being leveled against her, what she experienced then and likely for months if not years before, and for her teammates and others not visible in their survivorship but hopefully gaining strength due to her bravery. May these images of her in her power and actively celebrating be those that we lead with.

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He did this in front of her teammates, in front of his colleagues, and specifically in a moment when her strength and professional achievement was at its highest absolute peak. Her win, and her body, were his for the taking…

In July, an Italian judge concluded that sexual assault can not occur if the violation lasted fewer than 10 seconds. Ten. Seconds.

What happened to Hermoso was sexual assault and it lasted a few seconds. What happened to the Italian student was sexual assault and it lasted ten seconds. What happens is sexual assault and it doesn’t matter if it’s a doctor or a teacher or a family member or your coach or your boss or a stranger or if there’s force or paralysis or unconsciousness or coercion or if you yelled or you screamed no or if you felt stuck or if you were alone or if you whispered stop or if five people watched and didn’t step in or if no one ever knows or if everyone knows or if your clothes were on or ripped off or if you initially said yes but then said no because any form of no at any time or any lack of yes in any way is what matters.

I can only hope that how we, we all, internalize or reject the narratives currently underway related to Hermoso’s sexual safety and her bodily integrity might reflect that, for f**k’s sake, enough is enough, that any amount or duration of violation is assault, and our work until now has to somehow continue, surviving in all of this, to limit how many more people will need to say .

Posted • Congratulations to the 8.23 Birth Doula Cohort. A special thanks to PacificSource for sponsoring a Dari interpreter and Afghan scholars for this THW training. And also Prosper Portland diversity grants, CEA Doulas and Tamara Martinez, Heather Meyer, Jackie Abbott and mentors who supported this group. Please help us welcome these new doulas to the community.

Hello my West side doulas. I have a Beaverton afghan refugee student who was scholarshipped for this weekends training starting Thursday. She has no transportation. she has a 9 month and needs to get to Mother Tree Farm for class. No other course mates are coming from that area. She can’t take Max or Uber/Lyft. Anyone willing to be her morning driver for a 7:30 Am pickup. Thursday -Sunday? We can compensate for. “DUber”. 😍. Or other ideas?

Posted • When you become a doula you join an amazing supportive community of dedicated passionate people. I had the honor of these two perinatal experts and friends Jackie and her husband Dr Robert lovingly packed the upcoming training kits for new doulas. Lifelong careers of deep impact in the community Jackie and Robert are a dynamic duo. Jackie is a Nutritionist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Medical Educator, Registered Dietician · Approach to Patient Care Childbirth Educator and Robert, PsyD psychologist Neuropsychologist. And guess what?!!! They love doulas!!!!! We have 2 more spots left in our upcoming birth and postpartum trainings. Birth 17-20 and Postpartum 25-27. Join us and see the special surprises they packed for you!