Postpartum Care Services

About Vicky

 Vicky is an experienced care provider in all aspects of the postpartum period.  Since 1992, she has helped more than 600 families, providing a wide range of services and support with multiples, preemies, gay couples parenting, breastfeeding and household organization to ease the transition for the growing family.
 
Vicky established her foundation of knowledge about newborns as a nurse in a hospital newborn nursery in the 1970s.  She continually updates her education and continues to learn from the newborns and the mothers she is honored to work with.
 
Vicky specializes in perinatal mood disorders such as postpartum depression and anxiety, and she understands the kind of practical, emotional and informational support a woman with PMD needs. Vicky is well-connected with excellent local resources that can be so helpful to a new mother experiencing a mood disorder.
 

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 Qualifications

As the first postpartum doula and doula trainer in Oregon, Vicky has trained and mentored many other doulas in Oregon and Washington.  She also teaches classes in breastfeeding, postpartum depression and newborn care for other birth professionals.  Vicky has published articles in Mothering magazine, Midwifery Today and DONA International.

 

Vicky is mother to two and grandmother to three.

 
FEES:
Hire a doula for as long as is needed or benefit from a one-time session
 
In person sessions
$70 for the first hour
$30 for each hour thereafter
 fees include one free phone call and one e-mail
Phone calls
$15 per 15 minute conversations
(minimum of $15)
 
 
In her spare time, she enjoys creating:  sea kelp sculptures. click on "sea kelp sculptures" to see pictures.

Vicky's favorite pasttime
kelp basket
kelp basket

Vicky York, IBCLC, CPD * Postpartum Care Services * Portland, OR * (503) 320-5811 * vmyork@yahoo.com