Hi, we are Bri & Alicia.
We're so glad you're here.
Hello Baby provides doula care in Portland, and surrounding regions, focusing on supporting families and birthing people through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
We trust you.
We trust your baby.
We trust birth.
Owners, Alicia and Bri, bring together passion, experience, and expertise, to provide care and support for all birthing people, no matter the type of family and in all kinds of bodies.
Hello Baby serves clients with physical and emotional support, education, empowerment, and informative guidance. They are passionate about breaking through what people are told birth and parenting should be to find trust in their own body, experience, style, choices, and intuition.
While I am not at a birth or my computer, you can find me listening to true crime podcasts, cooking or baking, and making shopping lists that are organized by grocery store aisle. I love a good meal (preferably small plates so I can try everything), doing laundry (but not putting it away), and cleaning my ears with cotton swabs (which I know is bad but it feels so good). If I had more time and money, I would also be traveling the world, cuddling puppies, taking every college course available, and reading lots of mystery novels. I live in SW Portland with my hilarious partner and the two amazing little humans that we made.
see my trainings
Placenta Specialist (Cornerstone Training)
Seahorses & Unicorns - Supporting Trans, Genderqueer, and Gender Nonconforming Clients (Trystan Reese)
Centering the Marginalized Experience (Davinah Simmons)
Adult and Pediatric CPR / First Aid / AED Certification
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ICEA-trained Childbirth Educator
Basics of Lactation Management for Doulas
Babywearing for Birth Professionals (Adjoyn)
Collaborative Practice and Professionalism Doula Training (PDX Doulas)
Trauma Informed Care (Brooke Noli MFT, PCW, CD)
Spinning Babies (Tammy Ryan of Spinning Babies)
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I have been interested in pregnancy and birth as long as I can remember. As an only child growing up in northern Colorado, I wore my bicycle helmet in my shirt (as a belly) more than I wore it on my head. I birthed my dolls into friends’ hands while doing that old school Lamaze panting breathing. (Yes, I am a child of the 80’s - I watched the movie Labyrinth on repeat).
While I studied Psychology at Colorado State, I worked as a server and bartender. I took friends to Planned Parenthood and held space for their secrets, questions, and experiences. Nothing was embarrassing, gross, or off limits. It still isn’t. I found my way to Portland in 2007, and after a short stint back in Denver, am here to stay.
Finding my way to birth work was inevitable, and the empowering experience of having my own babies turned my lifelong interest into a great passion. I am an educator and helper at my core, and I approach conversations about things like birth and death with a healthy dose of levity.
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Meet Bri
So, this is the part where I am supposed to tell you all about myself and make you fall madly in love with me, right? Welp, I am just a small-town girl. I was raised on a small family homestead in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California. Animals, a garden, and fruit trees, accompanied with endless early morning weekends working on the property… it’s great as a teenager, let me tell you!
I did not immediately end up in the birth world. In college, I studied linguistics and German in Chico, CA while supporting myself working nights providing care at a residential facility. I felt a calling to experience something new and in 2011 made my move to the “big city” where I secured a job in the corporate world. Anyone else not working in the field they studied for?!
Meet Alicia
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I consider myself a helper soul and being of service to others is my passion. I find such joy in birth work and supporting people through these transformative life experiences. As an introvert, I appreciate the intimate connection and relationships I make with my clients. When I am not supporting others, I love to spend my time at home. I can be caught singing and dancing in the kitchen, or in a blanket burrito on the couch watching The Office on repeat. My husband and I can practically recite the show in its entirety, but when we aren’t playing our own game of memory, I enjoy reading, my crystals, meditating, and time spent outside working in our yard while of course playing fetch with our two dogs - Remington, a black lab, and Scout, my special rescue border collie.
see my trainings
Collaborative Practice and Professionalism Doula Training (PDX Doulas)
Trauma Informed Care (Brooke Noli MFT, PCW, CD)
Spinning Babies (Tammy Ryan of Spinning Babies)
Placenta Specialist
Adult and Pediatric CPR / First Aid / AED Certification
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Certified Birth Doula DONA International
Certified Integrative Reiki Practitioner, Levels 1 & 2 (Harini Sukumaran, BAMS, MA, LMFT)
Lamaze Trained Childbirth Educator
Basics of Lactation Management for Doulas
Babywearing for Birth Professionals (Adjoyn)
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All types of family structures bring life into the world. No matter what your family structure looks like, you deserve individualized support to meet your needs.
Unconditionally here for birthing people.
We love working with all types of families and have experience supporting: single parents, LGBTQIA+ families, plus size birthers (we believe in health at every size HAES), pregnancy after loss.
We're here to answer your questions and give more information about working with our team.
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