Vera Hyatt (she/her)

Hi Friends, I’m Vera. Also known as Auntie V. The birth of my two precious nieces is what led me to become a perinatal health provider. Bearing witness to the birth of my first niece and my sister’s beautiful and complicated labor and postpartum experiences inspired me to become a doula. I dove head-first into the birth world, consuming an astounding amount of researched and anecdotal information, deciding which trainings to prioritize, and imploring everyone I knew to tell me their birth stories. I am a certified and practicing birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator and I believe that being a birth worker is how I am making the world a better place. I hold a special fondness in my heart for supporting folks with whom I have a lot in common: Queer families, sexual assault survivors, people who struggle with anxiety and OCD, those who have undergone ART in their fertility journeys, and those of “advanced maternal age.”  

My goal as a birth worker and educator is to inform and prepare pregnant people, so that they can embrace the process of birth with confidence and an easeful surrender. I TRUST the physiological and spiritual process of birth. I trust birthing bodies, and I trust the path of the new beings that are coming in. What I’ve witnessed over the years in this work is that birth is both normal and complex, challenging and joyful, wild and routine. I’m here for all of it, and remain a grounded presence in the birth space, an advocate for family’s birth preferences using a Trauma Informed Care approach, and a facilitator of a true informed decision making process.

I completed labor and postpartum doula training through Birthingway College of Midwifery’s rigorous program, prioritizing the values of nonjudgemental, empathetic, biodynamic care. I am honored to have worked with hundreds of families during their perinatal year, constantly learning and growing to provide the unique support that each family requires.  

I am also proud and thrilled to offer birth videography services for those who wish to capture this powerful and profound moment in a beautiful birth film. Please see our birth films page for more information!

Vera’s Qualifications

• Secretary serving on the board of the Oregon Doula Association

• Birthingway College of Midwifery, Certified Labor Doula & Certified Postpartum Doula

• Trauma Informed Care for Birth Professionals, Lamaze International

• Supporting Survivors Who Birth, Cornerstone Doula Trainings

• Certified Childbirth Educator, ICEA

• Culturally Competent Nursing Care, Ciné-Med Inc.

• Infant CPR Certification

• Rebozo Workshop for Comfort Measures in Labor with Gina Kerby

• PDX Doulas Collaborative Practice Training

• Optimal Fetal Positioning for Labor, Cornerstone Doula Trainings

• Surprise Homebirth training for Doulas

• Member of the Portland Doula Association

• Birth Videographer

About Vera

• My self care regimen includes body work, gestalt therapy, writing morning pages, long walks with my pup, serving puer tea (the earthier the better)

• Former restorative yoga instructor, Reiki II practitioner

• Dedicated auntie and godmother

• Meditation in many forms: cooking, swimming, fermenting, gardening, yoga, hiking, art

• My most recent crafting project is knotting macramé plant holders to house the dozens of house plants I’ve adopted

• I’ve been to Burning Man 16 times