My name is Vallen Webb. I am a Certified Postpartum and Bereavement doula, a soon-to-be therapist, and the founder of Evelyn James & Company, the most comprehensive pregnancy and infant loss education and training company in the perinatal space.

I built this business because of what I didn't have when I needed it most.

After experiencing a full-term loss, while my husband was on a 7-month deployment with the Navy and two little girls at home, I experienced two sides of the medical care system.

I had nurses and midwives who were kind, compassionate, and deeply present. I also experienced moments where well-meaning professionals seemed unsure of what to do, what to say, refused to make eye contact with me and didn’t know how to comfort a family whose baby had died.

And what I remember most is what happened after.

I remember feeling alone. Scared. Overwhelmed by grief, rage, trauma, and thoughts I did not understand. I remember wondering if I was broken, if I was crazy, if anyone could possibly understand the kind of pain that comes after giving birth to a baby you do not get to bring home.

That kind of loneliness changes you.

It also made me ask a question I could not let go of:

How are we letting mothers and families walk through this without prepared, compassionate, ongoing support?

Evelyn James & Company was born from that question.

The Pregnancy Loss Education Training is the training I believe should have existed, not only for families like mine, but for the professionals who genuinely want to show up and often have never been taught how. This work is for doulas, birth workers, students, nurses, therapists, social workers, and perinatal professionals who understand that caring about families is not enough. We also need tools, language, frameworks, and the ability to stay present when grief feels unbearable.

This training covers what many perinatal certifications only briefly touch, if they cover it at all: what to say in the hardest moments, what not to say, how to support a family after miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, neonatal loss, or pregnancy after loss, how to understand the emotional and physical realities of postpartum after loss, and how to continue supporting families beyond the hospital room or the first few weeks.

Because families do not stop needing care when the baby is delivered.
They do not stop needing care after the funeral.
They do not stop needing care when everyone else goes back to normal.

Evelyn James & Company is a for-profit business, and I built it that way with intention. Financial sustainability allows this work to continue. It allows me to build better trainings, create more resources, support more professionals, reach more families, and keep showing up for the long haul. The mission and the business model are not in conflict. They make each other possible.

My students do not simply complete a training and disappear. They become part of a growing community of professionals who take this work seriously, people who understand that pregnancy loss education is not an optional specialty. It is a professional responsibility for anyone serving families during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, grief, or maternal mental health.

This is more than my work.

It is my daughter’s legacy.
It is my lived experience turned into education.
It is my way of making sure fewer families are left alone in the moments when they need care the most.