services offered:
- Labor support
- Postpartum support
meet Ariana
For the last 10 years of my life, I have enjoyed working in the service industry as a bartender, but I always felt there was something else in store for me career wise. I figured it out as soon as I experienced what it was like to have a birth doula. I was amazed at how many similarities there are in both fields and it only seemed natural for me to make the switch. I enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, I seek being active while I work, and I welcome the challenge of adapting to new (sometimes intense) situations that are presented. Most of all, I love serving people.
Whether a person or couple is having their first baby or it’s their 5th, welcoming a new life into the world is a major transition for everyone. I want to do what I can for each family I serve, and I am willing to be open to whatever that might entail. Thus far I have been there for single mothers, parents welcoming their baby via cesarean, a family where the father didn’t speak English, and another client who has experienced past hospital trauma.
My mind races with the possibilities that this career will offer through my lifetime! With it, I hope to travel in order to share what I know, but more importantly learn from other cultures about what they know of birth and child rearing. My heart goes out to people who have experienced previous trauma and abuse and am eager to learn ways in which I can help them. I also am actively researching becoming a surrogate for the right family in the future. In the meantime, aside from growing as a doula, I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter at our home in NE Portland. We love to garden, watch Bob’s Burgers and have living room dance parties before bedtime!
Education and training
--DONA Birth Doula Training – Mother Tree Birth, August 2018 weekend intensive
--DONA Postpartum Doula Training – Mother Tree Birth, June 2019 weekend intensive
For the last 10 years of my life, I have enjoyed working in the service industry as a bartender, but I always felt there was something else in store for me career wise. I figured it out as soon as I experienced what it was like to have a birth doula. I was amazed at how many similarities there are in both fields and it only seemed natural for me to make the switch. I enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, I seek being active while I work, and I welcome the challenge of adapting to new (sometimes intense) situations that are presented. Most of all, I love serving people.
Whether a person or couple is having their first baby or it’s their 5th, welcoming a new life into the world is a major transition for everyone. I want to do what I can for each family I serve, and I am willing to be open to whatever that might entail. Thus far I have been there for single mothers, parents welcoming their baby via cesarean, a family where the father didn’t speak English, and another client who has experienced past hospital trauma.
My mind races with the possibilities that this career will offer through my lifetime! With it, I hope to travel in order to share what I know, but more importantly learn from other cultures about what they know of birth and child rearing. My heart goes out to people who have experienced previous trauma and abuse and am eager to learn ways in which I can help them. I also am actively researching becoming a surrogate for the right family in the future. In the meantime, aside from growing as a doula, I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter at our home in NE Portland. We love to garden, watch Bob’s Burgers and have living room dance parties before bedtime!
Education and training
--DONA Birth Doula Training – Mother Tree Birth, August 2018 weekend intensive
--DONA Postpartum Doula Training – Mother Tree Birth, June 2019 weekend intensive