Give your child a gentle beginning.

A Gentle Beginning embraces birth as a normal process in a woman's life, working with each family individually to build trust in a woman's ability to give birth naturally. Our experience as Certified Nurse Midwives and Naturopathic Physicians/Midwives, having attended home births and water births for 30 years, will help your baby have a gentle beginning. Our midwives serve birthing families in Portland, Oregon and its surrounding areas, including Vancouver, Washington. Read more about our specialized natural birth class, Centered Birthing.