Doula Synergy

11/03/2025

Excited to share my recent conversation on the InJoy Health Education Podcast (INCAST) with Debbie Young! We discussed the importance of compassionate support for families dealing with pregnancy and infant loss. Tune in to hear more about our mission at Doula Synergy: https://wix.to/ieEdeK0

10/07/2025

Join us 10/15 Remembrance Event & Wave of Light 🌷

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month — a time to honor, remember, and support families who carry their babies in their hearts. 💗

We’re grateful to be partnering with the Salem Withnell Family YMCA and Salem Health for this year’s Remembrance Event, creating space for reflection, connection, and healing in community.

Whether your loss was recent or many years ago, you are welcome here. Come as you are — to remember, to light a candle, and to know you are not alone. ✨

🕯 Salem YMCA Remembrance Ceremony
📅 Date: Wednesday Oct 15th (6:00-7:15)
📍 Location: Salem YMCA (685 Court Street NE, Salem, OR)
💬 All are welcome — bereaved families, friends, and community members

Click link for registration: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PNujjXuKe02FP8FUVOHJlgxpK88a4btJjAMAZTGC4flUREc2TUxRSksxMUxVMzRHVTZER1REMlE5Sy4u

10/01/2025

October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month — a time to honor the babies gone too soon, support grieving families, and work together to change how loss is understood and cared for. 💜

At Doula Synergy, our vision is to transform loss support so that no family walks this path alone.

👉 Read our latest blog to learn:

- Ways you can show support this month (wear pink & blue, donate, reach out, share resources)

- How to join the October 15 Wave of Light locally and virtually

- Events happening in our community this month

- How you can help us continue our mission through Doula Synergy

✨ Together, we can shine a light in the darkness of grief and build a future where every family has access to compassionate loss support.

💜 Read more here: https://www.doulasynergy.com/post/october-is-pregnancy-infant-loss-awareness-month-1

09/18/2025

🌟 Honoring Babies Who Died Too Soon 🌟

Tomorrow night 9/18 at 9pm we gather for a candlelit vigil to kick off Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day. 🕯

If you’re unable to join us in person but would like your baby honored, please share their name using the form below. You’re welcome to include their date, a short message, or any other words you’d like read aloud. We will make sure every baby is remembered with love at the vigil. 💜✨

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Together we shine a light, break the silence, and honor the babies who are always in our hearts.

09/18/2025

Thank you to Hailey at the Salem Reporter for helping us spread the word about the Vigil tomorrow night (Thursday 9/18) to honor all the babies that died too soon and shed light on stillbirth.

We've partnered with Healthy Birth Day, Inc. illuminate the bridge in honor of Stillbirth for National Stillbirth Prevention & Awareness Day (Sept 19th).

https://www.salemreporter.com/2025/09/17/thursday-night-vigil-will-honor-stillborn-babies/

A Thursday night vigil will bring families together to grieve the loss of stillborn babies and pregnancy loss.

09/10/2025

💜💙 Join us for Stillbirth Prevention & Awareness 💙💜

We’re honored to partner with Healthy Birth Day, Inc. to participate in National Stillbirth Prevention & Awareness Day (Sept 19th). This year, the Union Street Railroad Bridge in Salem will be illuminated on Sept. 18 & 19, and we’re hosting a candlelit vigil on the evening of Sept. 18 to honor babies gone too soon.

Our founder, Ashley Rose Doula started Doula Synergy after experiencing the stillbirth of her daughter Lena and recognizing the urgent need for compassionate support for families facing loss. This vigil offers a meaningful way to raise awareness, honor grieving families, and spark conversations that may help prevent future losses.

Join us Thursday, Sept. 18
💙 Monthly Grief Circle at Salem Health 6:30 - 8:30pm
🕯️ Candlelit Vigil: at 9:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Union Street Railroad Bridge, Salem
💜 Wear purple & teal
📸 Photos to capture the evening — share your photos with

Let’s honor the babies gone too soon and support families together. 💜💙

Learn more here:

Doula Synergy Joins Healthy Birth Day to Raise Awareness and Support Families Experiencing LossLandmarks across the United States will be illuminated in purple and teal on Friday, September 19, 2025, for National Stillbirth Prevention & Awareness Day, a day dedicated to honoring babies lost too soon...

06/27/2025

Thank you Salem Health for hosting an amazing Rememberance event, honoring all the babies and children that left us too soon. It was an honor to be in the presence with such awesome humans who know an immense kind of love and understanding. Thank you Compass Perinatal Peer Support for partnering to offer the community grief circle in Salem.

06/26/2025

At Doula Synergy, we believe no family should face pregnancy or infant loss alone. Our founder, Ashley Rose had the honor of sharing her story in support of Oregon House Bill 692, which would expand insurance coverage for postpartum doula care. We’re grateful to The Oregonian for including part of her testimony and helping to elevate this vital conversation.

After the stillbirth of her daughter Lena, she shared:

“We had amazing support in the hospital—but then we came home. The nursery was empty. My breasts were engorged. The flowers were dying. My heart was broken. I didn’t know what to do with myself.”

No one should have to navigate that kind of grief alone.

Doulas offer wraparound care during life’s most vulnerable moments—witnessing birth and sometimes death, honoring babies, validating emotions, nurturing the body, and holding space for healing. They bring food and water, support physical recovery, care for siblings, help around the home, coordinate remembrance rituals, offer grief resources, and provide unconditional presence.

They comfort. They care. They show up.

That’s why Doula Synergy exists. We are working to ensure every loss family has access to skilled, compassionate doula support—and that no one is left to grieve in silence. We’re building a future where doulas are seen as essential care, and families are truly held through life’s most delicate transitions.

💜 Read the article and please share to help pass HB 692 and expand access to doula care across Oregon:
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/06/legislature-poised-to-require-insurance-coverage-for-expanded-care-for-moms-babies.html

A bill to expand pregnant people’s access to doulas and lactation specialists has received broad bipartisan support.

06/26/2025

Please join us tomorrow at Salem Health for a Rememberance event to honor the babies and children who left us too soon.

05/15/2025

🌙 Pregnancy & Infant Loss Grief Circles – You Are Not Alone 💛

Grief after pregnancy or infant loss is often invisible, isolating, and misunderstood.

Whether you've experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal loss, or early pregnancy loss, we see you. These moments matter. Your story matters. Your baby matters.

🕯️ Join our monthly Grief Circles—a space for remembrance, healing, and community with others who deeply understand.

✨ What to Expect:

- Compassionate, doula-led facilitation
- Space to share (or just listen)
- Rituals for honoring your grief and your baby
- A warm, non-judgmental environment

🖤 Open to anyone who has carried a baby who has died, no partners or children please.

📍 Portland
3rd Thursday of each month | 6:30–8:30 PM
Flanders House Healing Center
2926 NE Flanders St, Portland, OR
Suggested donation: $10–$30 (no one turned away)

📍 Salem
3rd Thursday of each month | 6:30–8:30 PM
CHEC Center at Salem Health
939 Oak Street SE, Salem, OR
Free | No registration required
Sponsored by Compass Perinatal Peer Support

💌 More info see bio!

04/03/2025

Loss is an inevitable part of birth work, yet many doulas don't feel prepared for supporting during loss. Bereavement training isn’t just an extra skill—it’s an essential part of being a well-rounded, trauma-informed doula.

Families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss deserve doulas who are trained, confident, and capable of holding space for them with care and compassion. They need doulas to show up prepared—not just with love, but with the knowledge and tools to truly support them through the physical, emotional, and logistical realities of loss.

Click on the link below to learn about two trainings opportunities to provide essential guidance to help birth-workers to approach these sacred moments with compassion and expertise.

✨ Ashley Rose Doula Compassionate Support Through Loss for Doulas (Self-Paced, Online) $79 // 2 CEU's

✨ Mother Tree Doula Services Advanced Training: Loving Presence (Live, Virtual) April 25-26 // $600 // 17 CUE's

Let’s ensure that every family has the support they deserve—no matter the outcome of their pregnancy. 💜

Bereavement Training for Doulas is Essential Loss is an inevitable reality in birth work, yet many doulas find themselves unprepared when faced with supporting families through pregnancy and infant loss. Whether it’s holding space for emotions, understanding what to expect during different types o...

03/19/2025

✨ The Missing Piece in Loss Care: Doula Support ✨

At Doula Synergy, we believe that every family experiencing pregnancy or infant loss deserves compassionate, skilled support—but too often, this care is missing from our system.

A recent research article, The Expansion of Doula Support Services for Reproductive Loss, confirms what we already know: Doulas play a critical role in improving outcomes for families navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, and infant loss.

🔹 Loss is more common than many realize, yet families are left without the support they need.
🔹 Doulas provide emotional, physical, and informational care—bridging the gap when medical systems fall short.
🔹 Integrating doulas into loss care should be the standard, not the exception.

This research validates the urgent need for doulas in reproductive loss spaces, and it fuels our mission at Doula Synergy:

💜 Empowering Families – Ensuring no parent grieves alone.
📚 Educating Doulas & Communities – Training doulas to provide expert loss support.
🤝 Building a Nationwide Doula Collective – Connecting families with compassionate, qualified doulas.
🏥 Collaborating with Providers – Partnering with healthcare professionals to strengthen loss care.

✨ This is why we are here. ✨

Read the full article here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/ujph/17872072.0005.007?view=text;rgn=main

If you believe in this mission, join us in advocating for change! Follow, share, and help us ensure that every family facing loss has the support they deserve.

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