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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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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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.