PDX Parent Reader Favorites: Pregnancy & Baby

The votes are in and we are rolling out more winners of the 2023 Reader Favorites! Here are our readers’ top choices in the Pregnancy & Baby categories.

Obstetrics & Women’s Health

WINNER: Women’s Healthcare Associates
The talented providers at Women’s Healthcare Associates offer pregnancy care and postpartum support for all women, from specialist obstetrics to nurse-midwife care. Physicians and midwives can also help you deliver your baby at a location of your choice; Women’s Healthcare Associates attend to births at eight Portland-area hospitals, as well as non-hospital deliveries at its Midwifery Birth Center in Gateway. In addition to physical care for parent and baby, mental health and genetic testing services are also available.

TOP 5
Northwest Women’s Clinic
The Oregon Clinic
Synergy Women’s Health Care
Woman’s Healthcare Clinic of Oregon, P.C.
Mendwell Pelvic Health

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Fertility & Surrogacy Resources

WINNER: OHSU Center for Women’s Health
OHSU is one of the top hospitals in the state, and the Center for Women’s Health is equally impressive when it comes to fertility treatments. No matter where families are in their trying-to-conceive journey, the center, which also doubles as a research facility, has a specialized team of reproductive endocrinologists to assist along the way. There’s also egg donor and surrogacy programs.

TOP 5
All Families Surrogacy
Northwest Surrogacy Center
Oregon Fertility Institute
ORM Fertility
Surro Connections

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Hospitals & Birth Centers

WINNER: Legacy Health
The skilled teams of doctors, nurses and midwives — and neonatal intensive care units — at Legacy Health are here to help you welcome your baby into the world. Soon-to-be parents can choose from state-of-the-art (but also cozy and homelike) family birth centers at Randall’s Children’s Hospital in North Portland, Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest, Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center in Tualatin and the Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham. Each of these family birth centers offer labor and delivery options including water birth and nitrous oxide. Another bonus: Legacy offers virtual classes on childbirth, breastfeeding, and mother and baby care, including webinars for parents of multiples and new grandparents.

TOP 5
Alma Midwifery
Providence Health System
Kaiser Permanente
OHSU
Women’s Healthcare Associates Midwifery Birth Center

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Pregnancy & Postpartum Support

WINNER: Bridgetown Baby
Bridgetown Baby believes that a supported, restful postpartum experience brings life-long benefits to parents and their children. That’s why their postpartum doulas and lactation consultants specialize in evidence based care to meet the needs of your whole family.

TOP 5
Providence St. Vincents Lactation Store
Birth First Doulas
Luna Wellness
OHSU
Portland Doula Love