AfterBirth

11/19/2025

🧡 Respectfully, no is a complete sentence.

🧡 Release yourself from the this holiday season…protect your …


🧡 Mature adults should understand 😌

11/17/2025

🧡 Be Prepared!

🧡 Do your

🧡 This is YOUR !

🧡 Protect yourself and your baby!

oh…and you CAN fire your provider if your needs are not being met…yes, you can 😌

11/15/2025

🧡 National Week!

🧡 Cheer for us in so that we can care for you at the top of our licenses!

✅ Tell your to support bill S45 for our

🧡 Receive the that you need and deserve!

11/14/2025

🧡 SNAP is on the way, !

For more information👇🏾
https://dss.sc.gov/news/alert-scdss-to-issue-full-november-food-assistance-benefits-on-friday-with-federal-government-reopening

11/12/2025

🧡 National Week

So what else do we do?
NPs are versatile! We’re always doing something!

Stethoscope work isn’t my only gig 😌…

🤲🏽 Host and support events including baby showers, fairs, fundraisers, awareness events

🫱🏾‍🫲🏻Connect and collaborate with other health supporting professionals including providers, counselors, ,

📚Continue to educate myself with additional schooling and yearly professional conferences

👩🏾‍🏫Educate others in the health field by teaching classes, participating in panel discussions

🧬Support emerging by contributing to the writing in manuscripts and convening documents, sitting on taskforces and advisory boards at local, state, and national levels

⚖️ for the profession and family health and wellbeing via speaking engagements, securing proclamations, attending hearings

🏆 Do good work and win awards!

11/10/2025

🧡 It is National Week!

🤔 WHAT IS A NURSE PRACTITIONER (NP)?

🩺 A registered with advanced education and clinical training who provides services.

🩺 Works in many settings like hospitals, clinics, and private practices.

🩺 Cares for the whole person (mind, body, environment) with a approach.

🩺 May specialize in areas like family practice, pediatrics, or mental health.

🧐 WHAT DOES A NP DO?

🩺 Patient care: physical exams, medical histories, manages acute and chronic health conditions.

🩺 Diagnostics: orders, performs, and interprets tests and analyzes results.

🩺 Treatment: develops and implements treatment plans, prescribes medications, and provides counseling.

🩺 Health promotion: teaches disease prevention and wellness tips.

🩺 Management: oversees someone’s total care…collaborating with other healthcare professionals as needed.

👩🏾‍🎓HOW TO BECOME A NP

📚Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and a master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited NP program.

📚 Experience: most NPs have years of experience as a nurse first. NP students are precepted by NPs to gain clinical experience as a provider.

📚Licensure and Certification: active RN license and completion of the necessary board certification (study, clinical, and testing) to practice as an NP.
NPs are required to do many hours of continuing education yearly to keep certification and licenses.

WHAT NURSE PRACTITIONERS ARE NOT…

❌Medical doctors

WE ARE NURSES AT OUR CORE…AND LOVE IT! 😌

11/07/2025

🧡 Anderson County

11/06/2025

😔 Despite improving and remaining steady since 2021 South Carolina’s preterm birth rate is still a very poor outcome - especially for Black families.

😔 Preterm birth is the 2nd highest leading cause for all infant death. Black babies are at highest risk.

Chronic health conditions that increase preterm birth risk…
🍭 Diabetes
😰 High blood pressure
🚬 Smoking
⚖️ Unhealthy weight

🤔 What policies have South Carolina put in place to improve outcomes?

MIDWIFERY CARE
❌ Independent practice
✅ Fair pay
❌ Prescriptive Authority
❌ Licensure for certified midwifery

✅ MEDICAID EXTENSION
- coverage up to one year postpartum

❌ MEDICAID EXPANSION
- increasing access to care

❌ MENTAL HEALTH
- screening required and paid for

❌ DOULA REIMBURSEMENT
- paid family leave…including for partners

✅ COMMITMENT TO PREVENTION
- CDC funded maternal mortality review committee and reviews fetal and infant deaths

🧐 How vulnerable is YOUR county in South Carolina?

Most have moderate to very high “maternal vulnerability”…a measure “used to understand where and why birthing people may be more likely to have poor health outcomes”

Learn more👇🏾
https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/reports/south-carolina/report-card

💜 Consider a donation for this important cause!
https://www.marchofdimes.org/donate-now

💸Where does a lot of the money go?
https://www.marchofdimes.org/our-work/research

11/04/2025

🧡 Indeed…they learn by watching you.
Let’s teach by showing

🧡 Please contact us If you or someone you know in the upstate South Carolina area needs

🧡 We also host 2 resource closets with

📍The Little Teapot Child Care Center
112 Whitehall Street, Abbeville
864.366.7888

📍AfterBirth
102 Buford Avenue, Suite E, Anderson
864.385.1485 – by appointment

✨The Grace Space is donation based. ✨These funds help to restock the closet.

🧡 Help kids to learn the power of the
👉🏾https://www.pbs.org/parents/lets-vote

10/31/2025

🧡 Available help across South Carolina

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/111800efc88d4da4887aa8776dc91a3b

10/30/2025