Urduja Doula
Portland, OR Service range 50 miles
Birth Fee
$1500 to $2000
Postpartum Rate
$40 to $60
Birth Fee
$1500 to $2000
Postpartum Rate
$40 to $60
Currently approved to receive payments from the following programs:
5 years
4 years
Type of practice: Independent contractor with a doula agency
Clients per month: 1 to 4 births and 1 to 2 postpartum families
Postpartum limits/restrictions: Includes post birth/post pregnancy aftercare, emotional support, labor and delivery processing, newborn care, lactation support, and light house tending. Postpartum planning, pod mapping your ecosystem of support, body work, home cooked meals tailored to your food lifestyle, and other ways you’d like to be supported.
Attends hospital births? All Hospitals
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
Attends home births? Any Home Birth
BA/BS
My education and affiliations: Founder of Urduja Doula, Active Doula with Community Doula Alliance, Leader Member of Forward Together's Northwest Reproductive Justice Collective (NRJC), Active Legacy Hospital Doula and Providence Health Doula, Postpartum Doula with Portland New Family Fund. Former Doula with Roots of Labor Birth Collective, Abortion Doula & Postpartum Doula, trained with Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (BADT), Birth Bruja: BIPOC Birthworker Mentorship Program, Childbirth Educator, trained with Wholebody Pregnancy, Folk Herbalist Student, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor through Contra Costa County's WIC, BS in Recreation Therapy at San Jose State University. As your full spectrum doula, I will support you and your pregnancy no matter the outcome, whether it is though birth or loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion). My doula care includes physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual care for you. My values and philosophy are: 1) Grounded and compassionate approach to supporting and caring for the birthing person. Maintaining trust and respecting each individual’s unique process and journey. 2) Offer individualized, holistic care rooted in balancing mind-body-spirit wellness, general resources and childbirth knowledge sharing, and somatic practices while honoring physiological birth in trauma-informed ways. 3) Advocate for birthing people with the lens of reproductive justice framework in supporting birthing folks having an autonomous and empowering reproductive experience. 4) Honor birth as a ceremony and respect traditional practices with the intention of cultivating a sustainable future.
Sliding scale fee of $1500-$2000 based on income for the full Blooming Flower Birth Doula Package. $40-$60 per hour for postpartum doula support. I want to be able to make my offerings accessible to anyone who would like to work with me. If you are needing financial assistance or want to arrange payment plans with me, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Portland, OR Service range 50 miles
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