Ashley Rose Doula

02/12/2025

If you want to change how families are supported through loss, please read, share and consider making a donation!

I wish I had a doula when my daughter Lena was stillborn. After my loss, I knew something was missing in the care families receive during these heartbreaking experiences. Now, as a doula, I’ve seen firsthand that doula support is the critical missing piece. Founding Doula Synergy is my way of making sure no family walks that path alone.

I'm thrilled to announce that Doula Synergy is now a fiscally sponsored project of Star Legacy Foundation! This partnership gives us the support and infrastructure to grow our programs and reach more families in need.

With this partnership, we can:
● Expand grief circles and provide hands-on support for more families navigating loss
● Develop and grow specialized training and educational programs for doulas
● Offer tax-deductible giving, pursue grant opportunities, and ensure professional, transparent management of all funds
● Strengthen connections between families and skilled, compassionate doulas

This Giving Tuesday, please consider helping us ensure no family faces pregnancy or infant loss alone. Your donation directly supports compassionate care, program expansion, and building a network of doulas ready to walk alongside families in their hardest moments.

💻 Read more and donate today: https://www.doulasynergy.com/post/compassion-in-action-star-legacy-partnership-for-giving-tuesday

Doula Synergy Is Now a Fiscally Sponsored Project of Star Legacy Foundation

01/12/2025

Doulas please join me this Wednesday! Register now to reserve your spot!

14/11/2025

I am excited to partner with the The Enlighten Healing Collective to host our in Person Pregnancy & Infant Loss Grief Circles!

08/11/2025

Today I completed my fourth tour of the Providence hospitals, and I’m feeling so grateful for the opportunity- thank you Rauna!!

These tours have been such a great way to get doulas familiar with the space — knowing where to find birth balls, water, snacks, extra linens, and how the beds work. The more we understand the environment, the better we can care for our clients (and take a few things off the nurses’ plates!).

It’s also a bit of a full circle moment for me — Lena was born at Providence Glisan, back when they actually had doulas on staff (pre-covid). Our experience was beautiful, even though the situation was devastating — she was stillborn. I felt like the support ended when I left the hospital and that my I wore the tainted lens of loss throughout the rest of my parenthood journey. What I learned through that experience is that having the right support makes such a huge difference and that people experiencing loss deserve specialized and compassionate care.

I’m so thankful that Providence has a Doula Collaborative Program (and that im apart of it), ensuring families have access to trained, compassionate doulas who can make a real difference in birth experiences and outcomes.

24/10/2025

Thank you Gathered & Wise for sharing some local food sources for those in need!

With the uncertainty around SNAP and WIC benefits going into November, we wanted to share local resources to help reduce food insecurity.

Please feel free to drop the contact information of any food assistance providers in Oregon, and if you’re able to help, now is a great time to make a donation to local food banks to support our community in need. No one should have to go hungry. 💛🍎

07/10/2025

Join Me for the Remembrance Event & Wave of Light – October 15th 🌷

I’ll be sharing my story of loss at the upcoming Remembrance Event, and I warmly invite you to join me for an evening of reflection, connection, and healing in community.

I'm grateful to be partnering with the Salem Withnell Family YMCA and Salem Health to create this sacred space of remembrance. Whether your loss was recent or many years ago, you are welcome here. Come as you are — to remember, to light a candle, and to know you are not alone. ✨

🕯 Salem YMCA Remembrance Ceremony
📅 Wednesday, October 15th | 6:00–7:15 PM
📍 Salem YMCA (685 Court Street NE, Salem, OR)
💬 All are welcome — bereaved families, friends, and community members

🔗 Registration is required: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PNujjXuKe02FP8FUVOHJlgxpK88a4btJjAMAZTGC4flUREc2TUxRSksxMUxVMzRHVTZER1REMlE5Sy4u

If you can’t make it in person but would like your baby’s name included, please reach out — I would be honored to add them to the list. 💞

01/10/2025

October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month which follows right after Lenas birthday so it's always an extra heavy month for me.

Check out this blogpost to learn:
- Simple ways you can show PAIL awareness & support this month

- Information about the Wave of Light on October 15

- Local and virtual remembrance events happening this month

- An invitation to join me at the YMCA on October 15 for a remembrance event, where I’ll be sharing my story

💜 Read the full blog here: https://www.doulasynergy.com/post/october-is-pregnancy-infant-loss-awareness-month-1

October holds a special meaning — it’s Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month — a time when we stop, remember, and bear witness to the babies who left us too soon, and to the families who carry their memories every day. This month we are breaking the silence around loss, offering compassion, ...

18/09/2025

Thank you to Hailey at the Salem Reporter for helping us spread the word about the Vigil tomorrow night (Thursday 9/18) to honor all the babies that died too soon and shed light on stillbirth.

We've partnered with Healthy Birth Day, Inc. to illuminate the bridge in honor of Stillbirth for National Stillbirth Prevention & Awareness Day (Sept 19th).

https://www.salemreporter.com/2025/09/17/thursday-night-vigil-will-honor-stillborn-babies/

A Thursday night vigil will bring families together to grieve the loss of stillborn babies and pregnancy loss.

16/09/2025

Join me and my co-facilitator Samantha (Silver Falls Family Support ) this Thursday night at 9 PM for a community candlelight vigil to honor the babies that were lost too soon. The Union Street railroad bridge will be lit on Thursday and Friday evenings in purple and teal in honor of Stillbirth awareness and prevention day(9/19). All are welcome to join, meet on the bridge at 9pm and wear purple and teal if you have it!

This is part of a growing nationwide movement to shed light on one of the most unrecognized public health crisis, led by Healthy Birth Day, Inc. Each year approximately 21,000 babies are still born in the US more than SIDS and prematurity combined. 25% of these losses may be preventable with greater awareness, education and timely support. I believe that my daughter Lena may be alive today if I would have been counting her kicks, she was stillborn 9/29/18. Doula Synergy provides education for Doulas and resources for families experiencing loss including pregnancy and infant loss grief circles.

Our monthly grief, circle sponsored by Compass Perinatal Peer Support will also be that evening from 6:30-8:30pm at Salem Health open to anyone who has carried a baby who died.

No registration required.

https://www.doulasynergy.com/post/shine-a-light-on-stillbirth-awareness

02/09/2025

I’m so excited to share that my Compassionate Support for Loss: Foundational Training for Doulas has received FULL APPROVAL by the Oregon Health Authority for 1.5 CUEs!

This self-paced, inclusive, online training is designed to equip doulas with the foundational skills and confidence to support families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss.

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

- Define pregnancy and infant loss and understand why each experience is unique

- Understand what families may experience during miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, infant loss, and postpartum recovery and how to support

- Recognize the emotional, physical, and informational needs of grieving families

- Apply effective communication strategies to engage with families sensitively and confidently

- Understand the complexities of grief and ways to honor it

- Recognize the importance of postpartum support, including recovery, emotional coping, and community resources

- Develop self-care strategies to sustain your work as a doula

All doulas should have a basic understanding of how to support families through loss. Unfortunately it's not a matter of if, it's when. Click on the link in bio for more info.

Please tag an awesome doula you know!

https://www.ashleyrosedoula.com/challenge-page/bereavementtrainingfordoulas

Compassionate Support Through Loss is a foundational training for doulas and birth workers to feel prepared and confident in guiding clients through

28/06/2025

We did it!!! The Momnibus Bill passed!!! This is a huge milestone for Oregon families!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!

Big news for little ones 💕👶 Senate Bill 692 just passed, expanding access to doulas and lactation support across Oregon! With more care during pregnancy, birth, and baby’s first year, families can thrive, and our future gets a little brighter. Because every parent deserves support, and every baby deserves the best start in life!