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 25 years of experience as Certified Nurse Midwives and Naturopathic Physicians, each having attended over 1000 home births and water births, 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, The Inner Work of Birth