Love Your Birth

05/01/2024

🌻Doulas make an incredible difference in the birth space. Love Your Birth is excited to share information on Brittany Shepherd, from Dwelling Tide Doula, LLC.

🌻Brittany is a Certified Birth Doula from Columbia, South Carolina, deeply committed to empowering women through their birth journeys. Alongside her husband Dustin and their two rescue dogs, Moose and Tilly Mae, Brittany uses her training, including a Certified VBAC Doula credential and Spinning Babies® techniques, to provide devoted care.

🌻We're grateful for her dedication to the community and her participation in our recent birth expo.

04/30/2024

🖤Meet Sarah Todd, MSW, LISW-CP, PMH-C—a passionate advocate for mental health originally from Greenville, SC. Sarah, an alum of Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, founded Todd Counseling in 2018 to address mental health disparities in the birthing and postpartum community. Based near USC, her practice primarily focuses on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, while also incorporating Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Narrative Therapy to meet each client's unique needs.

🖤Sarah recently attended last weekend's expo, showing her unwavering support for Love Your Birth. We extend our heartfelt thanks to Sarah for her dedication and for joining us in empowering individuals to navigate the complexities of life and achieve their best selves.

04/29/2024

🌟Give a warm welcome to Molina🌟 Molina is dedicated to ensuring that every individual, family, and community receives high-quality healthcare, no matter their circumstances. Their mission is to provide effective, dependable, and affordable healthcare solutions to those most in need. They aim to address the comprehensive physical, social, and emotional needs of their members while strengthening the communities they are part of.

They achieve this through a holistic, community-focused approach tailored to the unique needs of their members.

Founded in 1980 with a single clinic in Long Beach to bridge gaps in healthcare access, Molina has expanded to 19 health plans nationwide. Over the past four decades, they have enhanced the lives of our 5.1 million members by delivering specialized healthcare services for individuals with government-sponsored healthcare plans.

As their membership base has expanded, so too has their dedication to community support. In 2020, we initiated the MolinaCares Accord, significantly boosting investments to enhance our members’ healthcare access. Thank you Molina for sponsoring Love Your Birth. Happy to have hosted you this past weekend at our expo. ❤️

04/27/2024

❤️❤️❤️ Love Your Birth is thrilled to welcome local nonprofits to our expo! Each of these organizations contributes immensely to our community. ❤️❤️❤️

Please give a warm welcome to this year’s participants:

❤️ Palmetto Association of Licensed Midwives
❤️ Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
❤️ Scrub Life Cares
❤️ Babywearing of Columbia

Join us in celebrating the vibrant birthing community at the expo!

04/24/2024

🌟 A Huge Thank You to Our Silver Level Vendors! 🌟

As we gear up for our exciting expo this Saturday at The River Center in Saluda Shoals Park, we want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to all the amazing vendors who are joining us. Your support and dedication to serving our community are what make this event possible.

👶🎈 Join us from 10 AM to meet a fantastic lineup of experts from across the baby and family industry. Whether you're expecting or already navigating the joys of parenthood, our vendors have something special for you.

📍 Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to explore, learn, and connect. See you at Saluda Shoals Park this Saturday!

04/19/2024

📣 Calling all new parents and parents-to-be! 📣 Could you or someone you know benefit from a Perinatal Support Grant? Join us for our annual Birth and Baby Expo April 27, 2024 from 10:00am-12:30pm for your chance to win one of THREE grants available! But that’s not all we’re giving away! Be sure to checkout our giveaway table to see all of the other amazing things you could win!

How To Win:
🎉Interact with local birth and baby providers at the expo to earn stamps on your “Expo Passport” (Each stamp earns you 1 ticket 🎟️, with the chance to earn bonus tickets for completing your entire passport)
🎉Exchange your passport for tickets at the Giveaway Table and write your name on the back of each one
🎉Choose the giveaways you’d like to win and drop those tickets in the designated bags!

🫶Don’t forget, attendance at the expo gets you FREE admission to so be sure to checkout their ultra fun and accessible playground Leo’s Landing while you’re there! 🛝

🌯 will also have a food truck on site at The River Center during the expo for all of your lunch and snack needs! 😋

🩷 We can’t wait to see you all there! 🥰



Image Description: A pink, black, and blue multicolored background featuring a black and white photo of an infant. At the top it reads “FREE Giveaways and Perinatal Support Grants!” The text at the bottom reads, “WHAT: Annual Birth and Baby Expo, WHERE: River Center at Saluda Shoals Park, WHEN: April 27, 2024 10:00am-12:30pm” Below that there is text that says “Get to know pregnancy and postpartum providers in the Midlands, win giveaways, and get FREE admission to Saluda Shoals Park.” The Love Your Birth logo is in the lower left corner.

Love Your Birth! is a 501(c)(3) designated non-profit organization in the South Carolina Midlands

04/18/2024

This is Us series! We love getting to know each of you and we feel like it’s time to introduce ourselves.

🌟Meet Juliann🌟 Executive Director of Love Your Birth!

Passionate about supporting families through their pregnancy and birth journey, Juliann has always felt a calling to midwifery. Their dedication to providing comprehensive care extends beyond physical health, focusing also on emotional support for expecting parents. With a background as a paramedic, Juliann brings a unique blend of medical and holistic knowledge to childbirth.

Juliann Lee is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), SC Licensed Midwife (LM), Certified Childbirth Educator, Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, Paramedic, and a NFPTA Natural Family Planning Teacher. As a midwife and childbirth educator, Juliann is dedicated to providing families with current research and supporting all families all the way from conception through the baby’s first year. Juliann owns Little Orchids Childbirth Services, and she has two wonderful kids with her amazing husband.

04/16/2024

🌟 **Embrace Your Journey with Love Your Birth** 🌟

At Love Your Birth, we are dedicated to supporting you through one of life’s most transformative experiences. Our mission is to empower, educate, and embrace all birthing people and families through their birth journey.
Love Your Birth! is a 501(c)(3) designated non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rates by empowering and educating families about their options and choices during the prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum time period. We support patient autonomy and educated, informed consent in all aspects of care.
- 📚 **Educational Expos with incredible vendors**
- 💖 **Come meet your local Love Your Birth board & Committee**
- 🤝 **Support Groups via Meet the Doula events**
Join our community event today! Come meet us at our upcoming expo on April 27th, at Saluda Shoals Park. It’s FREE admission to the park. Learn more about how we can support your unique path to parenthood.

03/28/2024

✨PERINATAL GRANT GIVEAWAY✨
Are you having a baby? Know someone? Want to win grant money towards perinatal (midwife, doula, lactation etc.) services?

Love Your Birth is excited to introduce Perinatal Support Grants, aimed at assisting expectant families due in 2024 with essential care they might struggle to afford. These grants will cover services like doulas, lactation consultants, and night nurses to ensure a positive birth and postpartum experience. These grants can be won at our upcoming expo on April 27th at Saluda Shoals Park in Columbia, SC.

*There will be 3 grants total to win.
**Must be present to claim giveaway.

03/27/2024

🎉Come to our FREE birth expo!🎉

Mark your calendar for April 27th, at 10 am, for free entry to Saluda Shoals park. Come and meet our amazing vendors, win some awesome giveaway prizes, and have a wonderful time. To RSVP find us on Facebook or use the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/lybexpo2024

01/24/2024

📢 Don’t miss out on the Love Your Birth Annual Expo! 🎉 Early bird vendor registration is ending soon, on January 31st. This incredible event connects expectant and newly postpartum families with local services and providers. Plus, the funds raised will be used to sponsor Perinatal Support Grants for local families in need. 🤝 Register now at the link in our bio or visit our website, www.loveyourbirth.org. See you there! 💕