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Avocado Doulas

What This Organization Does

Avocado Doulas supports families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. During pregnancy, doulas provide education, birth preparation, emotional support, and practical guidance to help families understand their options and prepare for labor, birth, and the transition into parenthood. During labor and birth, doulas offer continuous emotional support, comfort measures, encouragement, and advocacy to help families feel informed, confident, and supported throughout the birth experience. After a baby arrives, doulas continue to support families with postpartum recovery, newborn care, infant feeding support, overnight care, parenting guidance, and practical help with daily routines as families adjust to life with a new baby.

Services Offered

Avocado Doulas offers birth and postpartum doula support, childbirth education, grandparents classes, placenta encapsulation, and other educational services to help families prepare for and adjust to life with a new baby. Services are available for families with many different experiences, including first-time parents, growing families, adoption, surrogacy, fertility journeys, and high-risk pregnancies. Avocado Doulas also welcomes and supports Spanish-speaking families, LGBTQIA+ families, and neurodivergent clients.

Eugene Birth & Family

What This Organization Does

Eugene Birth & Family Doula supports families during pregnancy, birth, and after a baby arrives. They connect families with doulas and offer birthing and lactation classes, parent support, and feeding guidance for new babies. Their services help families feel supported, informed, and cared for during this important time.

Pregnancy & Birth Support

Eugene Birth & Family Doula supports families during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period by connecting them with doulas and providing guidance throughout the birthing journey. They offer birthing classes, lactation support, and feeding guidance for newborns. These services help families feel informed, supported, and cared for as they prepare for and adjust to life with a new baby.

Love.Our.Mothers – All Family Doula Care

What the Organization Does

Pregnancy & Birth Support

Love.Our.Mothers – All Family Doula Care provides personalized support throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and the early weeks after a baby arrives. Doulas offer education, emotional support, comfort measures, birth preparation, and practical guidance to help families feel informed, confident, and supported before, during, and after birth.

OHP Covered Services

Birth doula support and postpartum doula support are covered by the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) for eligible families. Lactation support is also available for current Love.Our.Mothers birth doula clients.

Other Services

Love.Our.Mothers also provides compassionate support for families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss, adoption, surrogacy, abortion, and other complex family journeys. Placenta encapsulation services are also available.

Nurturely

What This Organization Does

Nurturely supports expectant and new parents, infants, and caregivers through education, support, and community connection. The organization focuses on helping families have healthy starts and works to reduce health gaps for parents and infants. Nurturely offers support around pregnancy, birth, early infant care, lactation, and postpartum care. Services include one-on-one lactation support, virtual lactation education, family preparedness education, and programs that help families feel connected, supported, and included. They also offer nature walks that include climate resiliency and wildfire preparedness, dance and body movement classes that support infant bonding and care, and cultural story times for families.

Pregnancy & Birth Support

Nurturely supports expectant and new parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care. They provide lactation support and education, including one-on-one support and virtual lactation learning. Services help families feel informed, supported, and confident while caring for themselves and their infants during the early stages of parenthood.

Parent Coaching

Nurturely offers education, community programs, and activities that support early parenting and infant care. Families can participate in programs that build connection, support bonding, and provide guidance for caring for a newborn. These services help parents and caregivers feel supported and included as they adjust to life with a baby.