AfterBirth

🧡 Tips for stress-free travel
👉🏾https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/on-the-go/Pages/Travel-Safety-Tips.aspx

🧡 Pack your patience and keep your emotions under control…remember that the end goal is reconnection through quality family time

🧡 Fun activity kit…available for different ages
👉🏾 https://a.co/d/0j6OymUb

🧡 May is Allergy & Asthma Awareness Month!

Make sure to follow the asthma and allergy regimen as recommended by your provider!

Make sure that all inhalers are up-to-date and full

Make sure to use the spacer with inhalers

Talk to your provider if your kiddo symptoms are increasing and or worsening.

🧡 More help at https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/allergies-asthma/Pages/default.aspx

The Period Project
355 Woodruff Road, Suite 106 
Greenville, SC 29607 
(864) 438-1157

https://periodproject.org/

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🧡 Love on yourself this weekend…you deserve it!

🧡 We will never stop being moms… even as we go through every stage of life.

🧡 Make sure that your cup is full with the things that benefit you first… physically, mentally, emotionally.

🧡 Keep up-to-date on checkups…know what makes YOU the best version of YOURSELF…and not what the influencer or the latest fad says.

🧡 Remember that those hormones can do you real dirty as time passes…know your body so that you can be alerted to change…there is reason for aches, pains, fatigue, and brain fog…it’s not always just the overworked body.



Need some hormone help?
Exercising? Eating right? Your body laughing at you?

📍Contact Midwife Grace

😵‍💫Parenting…surviving and thriving newborn through the first year!

🤔Bring your thoughts and questions…even those you’re afraid to say aloud.
We’re here to help in a no judgement zone!

😌Parenting ain’t easy, but it should be rewarding!

Two ways to join us on Tuesday, May 26th at 12:30…

📍BirthMatters - 501 Howard Street, Spartanburg
📍Zoom from wherever you are!

🌹Today, we observe Bereaved Mother’s Day.

Holding sacred space for all who have experienced the loss of a child at any stage. We acknowledge you and the life of your child whose memory is etched in your heart.

It is never easy. Life is forever changed.

🌹You are seen.
🌹You are heard.
🌹Give yourself more than all the grace today.

❤️‍🩹Therapy & Support Groups

Postpartum Support International
Loss & Grief in Pregnancy and Postpartum

https://postpartum.net/get-help/loss-grief-in-pregnancy-postpartum/

❤️‍🩹Reading Resources

Still Standing Magazine…for all who are grieving child loss and infertility
https://stillstandingmag.com

unexpecting - real talk on pregnancy loss by Rachel Lewis
https://a.co/d/3se993d

Birth Story Held for Loss: A Guide for Reflecting on Your Fertility Experience, Miscarriage, Abortion, TFMR, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss by Emily Souder
https://a.co/d/3swqIPY

Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss by Ann Douglas
https://a.co/d/gZCDn26

❤️‍🩹Helping the other children in your life…

When Someone Dies - A Children’s Mindful How-To Guide on Grief and Loss by Andrea Dorn
https://a.co/d/81Xy0Rp

From our friends

🩵 Build a healthy and strong family – body, brain and heart.

🩵 Understanding trauma
🩵 Stress and resiliency
🩵 Bullying
🩵 Screens, social media and your child’s health
🩵 Building your child’s team for health and wellness

Find local help resources…
https://scparents.org/topics/health-and-mental-health/




help from Midwife Grace Hannon

📍National Domestic Violence Hotline
https://www.thehotline.org

📍South Carolina domestic violence resources
https://dss.sc.gov/adult-protection/domestic-violence-program/

📍Parenting help in South Carolina
https://scparents.org

📍PPI - perinatal mental health resources
https://postpartum.net/get-help/for-you/

📍988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available
Call or text 9-8-8

🧡Be strong. Be brave. Step out.
Surviving and thriving depends on it!

🧡 Be empowered.
🧡 Join those in like community.
🧡 Make therapeutic choices.
🧡 Adopt sustainable practices.
🧡 Gather your support system.
🧡 Consider the midwifery model of care.