Lena Wood

Greater Portland Area
p: 503.307.8614
e: lena@cascadiabirth.com
w: www.cascadiabirth.com

 

Services: Labor, Postpartum, and Adoption Doula, Parent Education

For the past ten years I have had the pleasure of working with children and their families in a multitude of settings, including in-home daycare, baby-sitting, summer camps, environmental and sustainability education programs, after-school tutoring, and most recently as a certified Montessori elementary teacher. An educator at heart, I love collaborating with families to support the full potential of human development.

I came to doula work through several close friends who are midwives. Their excitement and passion for serving women’s birth needs resonated deeply for me. The more I learned about their work, the more I considered how I might be able to use my skills and experience as a teacher to give individualized support to new families.

I completed my postpartum doula training with CAPPA in 2009, and my labor doula training at Birthingway College of Midwifery in 2010. I am also completing the Certified Lactation Educator program through CAPPA, to better serve the needs of my breastfeeding postpartum clients. Other trainings I am pursuing during the spring of 2011 include Birthingway's Childbirth Education course, and the Infant Massage Educator program through the International Association of Infant Massage. It is an honor and privilege for me to be able to provide birth support to women and their families during such an intense and intimate transition of their lives.

When I am not working with clients, I can be found at home with my husband, working in the vegetable garden, delighting in new recipes in the kitchen, or hiking around our NE neighborhood. I also train in an Indonesian martial art form, Poekoelan Tjimindi Tulen, and have served as an assistant instructor in the after school and summer youth programs at One With Heart Tulen Center in SE Portland.