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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.

Family and Child Health

What This Organization Does

Family & Child Health Services in Lane County supports people who are pregnant or caring for a new baby, from pregnancy through about 10 weeks after birth. Families can meet with a nurse or family support specialist at home or in another comfortable place. Staff help answer questions, support the baby’s health and growth, and guide early parenting. They also help families find resources such as health care, diapers, and support for school or work. The program helps make things feel more manageable and builds confidence in caring for a child and family. Our programs include Our programs include Nurse-Family Partnership, Healthy Families Oregon, and Family Connects Oregon.

Pregnancy & Birth Support

Family & Child Health Services supports people during pregnancy and the early weeks after birth. Through programs like Nurse-Family Partnership and Healthy Families Oregon, families are connected with a nurse or family support specialist who provides guidance for a healthy pregnancy, early parenting support, and help preparing for life with a new baby.

Home Visiting

Families receive support through in-home visits or meetings in a comfortable place of their choice. Nurses and family support specialists provide personalized guidance, answer questions, and offer support tailored to each family’s needs during pregnancy and the early postpartum period.

Parent Coaching

Family support specialists help parents and caregivers build confidence and skills in early parenting. Support may include parenting education, stress management, and guidance for adjusting to life with a new baby while caring for the whole family.

Health Services

Nurses provide health-focused support for parents and newborns, including baby weight checks, feeding and lactation support, and guidance on newborn care. These services help monitor early growth and support healthy development during the first weeks of life.

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.

Parenting Now

What This Organization Does

Parenting Now offers a variety of evidence-informed services that support families in building strong, positive parent-child relationships. These services include parenting groups, discussion groups, parent coaching, seminars, and home visiting, each designed to promote parental confidence, reduce family stress, and support child development.

Home Visiting

Parenting Now provides home visiting services that support parents and caregivers in building strong, positive relationships with their children. Staff meet with families in their homes to offer guidance, encouragement, and support for child development and family well-being.

Parent Coaching

Parenting Now offers parenting groups, discussion groups, parent coaching, and seminars that help parents and caregivers build skills, increase confidence, and reduce family stress. These services support healthy child development and strengthen parent-child relationships.