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Supporting families.

Empowering doulas.

Improving outcomes.

Gateway helps families find trusted doula care and gives doulas access to community, resources, and insurance billing support.

I'm Looking
for a Doula

Find compassionate and competent birth, postpartum, and lactation doulas.

Find a Doula

I'm a Doula

Explore memberships, referrals, professional resources, and community.

Explore Membership

I Need Billing
Support

Get help navigating insurance billing for your doula services.

Billing Support

Gateway is a birth support ecosystem where families find trusted care, doulas build thriving careers, and communities come together to improve birth outcomes.

We have universal doula care in Oregon! All insurances accepted.

Universal Doula Care

Coverage that meets you where you are.

Whether you're on Oregon Medicaid through Health Share, Care Oregon, OHSU Health, or one of our other CCO partners—whether you have commercial coverage through MODA, Blue Cross, Aetna, Cigna, or United Healthcare—whether you're covered by Medicare, Tricare, or no insurance at all—doula care should never be a privilege reserved for those who can pay out of pocket (though we accept that too!).

Learn More about Universal Doula Care

Supporting Families.

Empowering Doulas.

Strengthening Communities.

14+

YEARS SERVING Oregon Families

200+

PROFESSIONAL DOULAS

TO CHOOSE FROM

5,000+

FAMILIES SUPPORTED

10+

COMMUNITY & HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIONS

How We Serve You

Every pregnant person benefits from support during childbirth, especially those from under-served communities, for whom negative disparities in birth outcomes are an unfortunate reality. The Gateway Doula Project formed in 2012 to provide these communities with increased access to doula care.

Family Support

Birth Doulas

Postpartum Doulas

Insurance Accepted

Find a Doula

Doula Membership

Professional Community

Continued Education

Community Support

Membership

Billing hub

Insurance Billing

Claims Support

Ongoing Support

Billing Hub

Why choose Gateway?

Doulas are trained to provide educational, physical and emotional support to patients during labor and birth. We are based in Portland, Oregon, and attend births in the greater Portland Area and provide on call doula care with the Adventist Midwifery Group.

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CompassionaTe
Care

🤝

Professional
Community

🛡

Trusted Insurance Billing

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Healthcare
Partnerships

🌎

Stronger
Communities

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Education
& Growth

Gateway Doula Group is a membership-based organization that offers doulas in the certification process and credentialed doulas the opportunity to partner or match with families seeking doula care, with a special emphasis on Oregon Health Plan/Medicaid families. We offer match services and Doula BiIlling Hub Services for community member doulas.

Most of our member doulas are on their way towards or have completed the Oregon Health Authority Traditional Health Worker (THW) Doula credential that allows them to take Medicaid OHP clients free of charge.

Real Stories. Real Impact.

My life changed forever

The doula went above and beyond helping me in different birthday positions and breathing exercises while I was laboring and in the worse pain of my life! She answered questions and helped me come have peace of mind when deciding to go with a c section.

Chazlynn

Ready to Support Families

I completed the childbirth doula class. It was well paced, accessible, thorough and provided the tools needed to be a great doula. This program has amazing support at every level, both during and after the the course.

Yvonne M, doula

Peace of Mind ⭐

The doula is "fantastic, and when I see she is working, I feel a notable, physical sense of relief. I know she is going to help me meet my patients' goals and that she’s going to support them well.

Melanie, hospital staff