We work together as a team of two and sometimes three. Our clients see both (or all three) of us throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

We work with families of all structures, cultures and faiths.

© 2000-2008

Silke Akerson and Carol Gray are midwives practicing midwifery for people who are looking for a midwife in Portland Oregon, the Portland metro area, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, Washington County, the greater Portland area, Oregon, Portland.  Sometimes people spell our names Carol Grey, Carole Grey, Carole Gray, Silka Akerson, Silva Akerson, Silke Anderson, Silva Anderson, Silka Anderson, Silke Andersen, Silka Andersen, Silva Andersen and so on. We attend homebirths, sometimes spelled homebirth, home-birth, home birth, home-births, home births.  Some of those births are water births, waterbirths, water-births, waterbirth, water birth, water-birth.  We give great pre-natal care, prenatal care, pre natal care, postpartum care, post-partum care, post partum care. Sometimes we are called birth attendants, birth attendant, traditional birth attendant, lay midwife, lay midwives, certified professional midwife, certified professional midwives, CPMs, CPM, traditional birth attendants, birth companion, birth companions, madronas, comadronas, parteras, sage femme, madrona, comadrona, partera, sage femmes, wise women, healers, herbalist, herbalists, wise woman, healer.  Some people are wondering about safety of home birth or home birth safety, homebirths safety, home birth safety, home-birth safety, safety of home births, safety of home-births, safety of homebirths.  We give breastfeeding guidance and support, breast-feeding guidance and support, nutritional guidance, fertility assistance, conception planning, pre-conception planning, preconception planning, pre conception planning. We're especially interested in birth from the baby's point of view, tender, respectful, gentle, transition, rite of passage, rites of passage, spiritual midwifery, indigo children, spiritual birth, indigo child, indigo baby, sacred birthing, sacred birth, sacred childbirth, home childbirth, childbirth at home, blessed event, blessed events, born in the caul, water born, water-born, waterborn, hands-off midwifery, hands off midwifery, hands off midwife, hands-off midwife, hands off midwives, hands-off midwives, minimal intervention, low intervention, women catch their own babies, husbands catch the baby, husbands catch the babies, partners catch the baby, partner catches the baby, partners catch the babies, birth as a family event, family birth, children at birth, siblings at birth, sibling preparation, unmedicated birth, unmedicated births, unmedicated childbirth, unmedicated child birth, unmedicated child-birth, non-medicated birth, non-medicated childbirth, non medicated child birth, non medicated child-birth, non medicated childbirth, nonmedicated birth, nonmedicated childbirth, nonmedicated child birth, nonmedicated child-birth, spiritual midwives, spiritual midwife.  You should have your baby at home with us.  We are very cool. We are very hands-off, hands off, handsoff. We respect women, their bodies and their babies. We treat you as if you were our own daughters bringing in the next sacred generation – the future of this planet.