Welcome to Inanna Doula Care
Inanna Doula Care is a Birthing From Within-based model of doula care. We are uniquely the first doula collective of this kind, servicing expecting and new parents in the Portland and surrounding areas.
Our doula care is Birthing From Within-inspired, meaning firstly that we have done either mentor or doula training (or both) with Pam England, author of Birthing From Within. In addition, we at IDC approach labor and birth as a journey, an incredible rite of passage. Finally, we embrace the belief that birthing mothers, when given the space and support, can birth in awareness and feel empowered, regardless of how their labor and birth journey unfolds.
We are committed to helping couples stay in the present moment, and to holding space for moms to remain in a birthing mindset, not attached to an ideal, but alive in each breath as her labor and birth open her and her partner into new parenthood. For us at Inanna Doula Care, it is an honor to be a part of this process, and we hope you will consider us in your search for a professional labor and birth assistant.
Birthing From Within Model of Care
- Non-judgmental:
- Mentors and BFW birth doulas have no attachment to outcome or to the choices about labor and birth that our clients make. Our main goal is to help you make the choice that is best for you in the moment. We do this by making sure you have the information you need to make informed decisions and we are available to work with you prenatally through birth art and other processes to help you gather the inner resources needed to make those choices and decisions with deep awareness.
- Next Best Thing:
- We help you stay solution focused instead of outcome focused. When you are solution focused you are always moving forward and trying the next best thing. In this way, you can feel empowered that even if your labor or birth is not happening in the way you think or hoped it would, you have the skills to stay in the present moment and to move on to the next best thing without getting stuck on what you think your birth should be.
- Awareness:
- When you are able to stay in the moment and be present with your birth, however it is unfolding, even if it is completely different from what you expected or what you wanted, then you can stay connected to your birth, your partner, and to your baby. The BFW pain coping techniques available in our childbirth preparation classes help to foster this awareness in our parents.
