Tanya Hladik - doula & photographer

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Tanya Hladik - doula & photographer

Held in Bloom - birth doula and photographer in Portland, OR Supporting and documenting this amazing journey of pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

08/25/2025

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” - Laura Stavoe

08/23/2025

What a fresh sweet nugget!!

08/22/2025

I love this moment that this baby was enveloped in both her parents hands. Feeling surrounded by love.

08/21/2025

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that we believe too much that we can rely on intuition for birth, and postpartum and parenting.

Realistically we are living in a time where there is a major education gap for parents who want to give birth without medical intervention. For families who wants to breastfeed and nurture their children as biology intended. Who want to raise strong resilient children. The village is gone, the elders were robbed of these experiences too and have little to give to help prepare ourselves for parenthood. And all too often the way to the path of birth and parenting we want is ours to fumble to find alone.

I think that most of us who got into doula work got into it for this reason. In some attempt to bridge the village gap we all experience. Often from our own experiences of all too late realizing what we didn’t know we didn’t know led us down a path of birthing in a very different way than how we would have really liked to birth.

For me it’s helpful to remember that a good part of why so much of this birth and parenting stuff is so hard is not because we are not good enough parents. It’s because we are living with such bleak support we are really just fumbling around in the dark trying to figure it all out on our own. It’s such a big weight to carry.

So if you feel like you’re failing, you’re actually really doing the best you can. This stuff is hard. We carry so much responsibility as parents wanting to forge a path for our children that is different from our own. And you're amazing for trying.

Fumbling around in the dark of not knowing is awkward and hard and lonely. We really are such a scrappy, resilient, creative generation of parents.

But also, if you can, hire a doula for birth and postpartum so you don’t have to feel so alone. It makes such a difference.

07/30/2025

This is what total surrender looks like 😍.

07/27/2025

Getting out of the tub and getting tucked into bed together. That first empty belly feeling is wild.

With

07/26/2025

A hospital birth in 4 images.

07/11/2025

The first 10 minutes postpartum.

07/09/2025

It's hard not to want to hold onto this time forever. There's this crazy ways that the baby phase is so all in and then disappears. And it's so constant it's impossible to say when it disappeared. I don't know if there is a way to prepare ones heart for how much change these little beings going through in their first few years.

07/03/2025

Breathing for you. Breathing for your baby. Feet firmly on the ground.

07/02/2025

One thing that felt so real to me while I was pregnant was how much pregnancy possessed my body and how little say or control I really had in the process. I nourished my body, rested, moved throughout the day, and my body sped me along the path of pregnancy, nourishing my growing baby whether I was thinking about it or not. In ordinary life I give little thought to how much my body does for me with out my own conscious doing, but pregnancy really highlights how amazing it is to inhabit a body that has it's own rhythm, a heart that keeps a constant beat to nourish my body and now another's whether I send it my gratitude or not. I guess, in truth, it's not vain to say we are amazing, it's fact. And the beauty of pregnancy is having that miracle very plain to see every day.

07/01/2025

Scenes from a riverside maternity shoot. The foliage was so luscious for this shoot. 😍

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2430 Cornwall Avenue
Portland, OR
97214

Website

https://www.tanyahladik.com/

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