Julia Schetky, SBD

Certified Birth & Bereavement Doula® serving Portland Oregon

SBD Doulas® are accessible to you through our open group or through our CONNECT app.

Certified in Psychological First Aid

My journey towards becoming a SBD Doula is rooted in personal loss. I have two little ones waiting for me on the other side, and I often think of them. Though both were early pregnancy losses, each brought me heartache and sadness. My saving grace were the people that surrounded me and held the space for my grief. After my second loss, during a 3 year journey of infertility, my lovely rainbow baby made his way into my life.

He is the reason I started doula work. I started with birth doula work in 2013, and moved into specializing in highly complex medical birth cases. During that time, a friend contact me to let me know she was going through a loss. I dropped everything to go support her during her birth. It was at that time that I knew what I didn’t know. I wanted to be able to give any client informational, emotional, physical and psycho-spiritual support, so my journey at StillBirthDay was embarked upon.

I can walk alongside any mother, birthing at any trimester.

I can be a guide along a journey that is unique to each family.

I can hold hands with grieving families, and give a listening ear.

I can guard their space and surround them with love.

I can cry with the broken hearted, and rejoice in future joy.

I am proud to be called a StillBirthday Doula.

Discover what the SBD credentialed doula has achieved.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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A pregnancy loss is still a birthday.

— stillbirthday

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

— Boris Pasternak

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

— Mohsin Hamid

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman’s side during childbirth.

— Liya Kebede

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

— Susan Collins

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.