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I'm Brittany, a Birth Doula in the Columbia, SC area seeking to provide devoted care to you! Hey there!

I'm Brittany Shepherd, a Certified Birth Doula in Columbia, South Carolina. I'm married to my best friend, Dustin, and our babes are two rescue pups named Moose and Tilly Mae!

It's a privilege of mine to get to be a vessel for sharing Christ's love as a birth doula, as I get excited to help equip women with education and empowerment for their unique labor + birth journey. A significant moment that led me to birth work was having the honor to be at my only sister’s side for her first birth. I knew from this precious experience that I wanted to do life walking alongside women as they prepare to meet their little one, offering intentional and devoted care every step of the way!

Along with my education gained from becoming a Certified Birth Doula (AWWS), I'm also a Certified VBAC Doula (TVL), and I'm familiar with the Spinning Babies® Approach and attended the Spinning Babies® workshop for birth professionals February 2024.

11/15/2025

these precious looks shared are just such priceless memories ✨ it was so precious after birth when everyone was settling in to capture this tiny moment of dad holding his new little one with sweet music playing in the background, with mom looking over so sweetly just soaking in the precious moment of them cuddling close together after the amazing work she did to bring baby in this world for her VBAC 🤍 (I think we almost all were in tears at that sweet little moment in time) 🥹

11/07/2025

getting to doula alongside one of my absolute favorite midwives is always a treat!! 🤩 so thankful for women like this who have encouraged me in the field of midwifery, and made it so easy as a doula these past few years to recommend their care as providers because of how dedicated, supportive, and passionate they are for the women who they care for ✨

10/15/2025

I’ve always said the reason I got into doula-ing was the relational aspect of it all getting to support so many women and her families. it’s been such a sweet surprise to make so many new friends from providers and nurses I’ve gotten to work alongside who have the same heart and desire for caring for women in the same beautiful way as they bring their little one in the world.

at a birth recently I got to see a nurse friend I hadn’t seen since earlier this year and the first thing she says is, “hold on I have a gift for you”, and comes back with this just out of the blue. it was such a sweet surprise and a reminder of how much it means to me that I get to meet such wonderful people because of doula work and now get to call those folks sweet friends ✨

07/31/2025

in our 4 years of marriage I’m grateful for continued growth & pursuing more of the Lord together, especially this past year for just how much we’ve taken what we learned in the first couple years and putting it all into practice with just loving each other well even more in so many different areas 🤍

I’m grateful for the challenges & hardships especially, being we’ve learned so much already by walking through them together, getting to encourage & support each other. And at the end of the day it’s sure fun to a have a best friend to do this life with ✨

07/15/2025

it’s always a privilege when the women I get to serve in turn gift me with their beautiful, precious words ✨ I have always loved words, as they have just meant so much to me and I found so much meaning in them. notes, letters, words - they just hold so much weight and you get to hold them forever 🤍

I thought it would be quite sweet to get to hear from a few clients’ perspectives how they would compare their doula support to simply anything they could come up with! especially knowing these words came from their personal experiences and perspectives of our time together, it was really a treat to get to share this!
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07/10/2025

3 key things from this photo to keep in mind for your labor + birth (and why they matter!) ⬇️

✨ birth/exercise ball
Usually provided at the hospital, though not always, so check with your birth location! This is a wonderful tool for movement + positioning in labor. Keeping your pelvis moving and grooving helps baby rotate and descend through your pelvis (KEY to labor!). A few ways to use the ball:
• Sit and rock hips side-to-side
• Sit and rock front-to-back (tuck tummy/poke b***y)
• Do figure 8’s with your hips
• Kneel with one leg up/rest your arms on the ball
• Lean over the ball while on your knees

✨ yoga mat
MOVEMENT is everything (you’ll hear me say this on repeat)! It’s also an amazing coping tool, physically and mentally. Staying free to move can help your body progress naturally, versus tensing up and holding still (like gritting teeth or clenching fists). Try hands and knees, lunges, or whatever feels right in the moment.

✨ your own clothes/shoes + personal items
You don’t have to wear the hospital gown if you don’t want to! Wear what makes you feel most comfortable: your own gown, nursing bra (cute if you want!), or nothing at all. Don’t forget flip flops/slips if you’re walking or laboring in the shower (another coping tool!)
Bring personal touches: photos, affirmations, even artificial flowers, anything that makes your space feel like yours 🌷 Because how you feel mentally 100% IMPACTS how you feel physically in labor.

Your labor is yours to remember and take with you. Make it feel safe, supported, and ultimately YOURS 🩷 If you had any specific coping tools or comfort items at your labor, what were they and how did you use them during your birth experience?? 🤩
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07/02/2025

Your birth journey should look how you want it to be. Things may change, and plans may go out the window, but you know what? It’s yours. It’s yours to come into educated, prepared, and ready (as I fully believe every woman should!) ✨ And if things happen to not go according to plan? That’s ok. That’s called being human in an imperfect world.

But there is surely great value in being equipped with education and knowledge knowing your choices, being prepared for informed consent, being prepared to say “yes” to things, and also “no” to things as well, because you know what, that’s totally ok and your right.

Your birth doesn’t haven’t to be “picture perfect” to have great value and meaning. I believe it simply has to be filled with unwavering support from those around you, unshakable confidence within you, and the ability to believe in your educated choices for you and your baby. And at the at the end of the day, that’s what matters 🤍

06/19/2025

doula support is intentional. it is devoted and unique. being a doula is about being a woman’s best friend in the thickest of thick, even if we just met only months ago.

it’s sweet and it’s funny, and then it’s a gut punch when you watch a woman labor her heart out and it still not go the way any of you hoped. it’s about supporting a woman giving it everything she’s got and doing so for the purpose of knowing she’s got a sweet little one to meet on the other side of the whirlwind of birth.

doula support is reminding a woman that she absolutely matters too, and what she goes through to bring her baby in this world is valid, and should be honored just as much as the life she is bringing in this world.

06/01/2025

getting to spend three years now loving on this little guy 🩵 what a great testimony to the Lord’s goodness was this sweet little boy’s life being brought into our family, and how sweet it will always be to have been part of that day supporting my precious sister as she welcomed him into this world. I am thankful for a little boy who will grow up knowing he is loved immensely, and pray one day he comes to understand just how much his life represents such peace, redemption, and joy for the family he is so loved by ✨

05/17/2025

Hey y’all! ✨
a little update! back in Oct., I shared that I’d be stepping back from doula work to focus on school full time to pursue my journey as a birth worker & I’ve been focused in on that journey ever since!

With that being said, I’ll be finishing up with my 1st stage of school this summer, which means… I’ve decided to open up my books for doula clients this fall so I’ll be taking 3 births per month from Aug- Dec 2025! 🥳

If you’re expecting this fall and desire support, I’d love to chat! My heart is so happy to have the opportunity to part of more birth journeys this year while I have the availability! ✨

05/10/2025

love a Sat morning coffee date with a doula-client turned precious friend & her little one! ✨

being invited into such special moments of labor + birth is something I’m so grateful for the ability to get to do. it’s just as meaningful getting to follow up from those times seeing just how much it has meant to the both of us, and the sweet friendship that has been built from it!! 🤎

05/07/2025

just making my way back to insta after a semester of school & a little break (before the next) with Call the Midwife, how appropriate right? 😆🩷

a girl in one of my classes heard me going on about Spinning Babies to another gal and said, “I love how you just know exactly what you want to do and you’re so passionate about it”. I thought well, I feel like it’s taken me 20 years to get here and I still feel like I’ve got 10 years of school left to get there 😆 (I’m not dramatic at all).

seriously though, I’m absolutely grateful the Lord has placed birth work on my heart and given me such a desire to care for women in such a uniquely beautiful and compassionate way. I will always say it’s such a sweet privilege!! ✨

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Columbia, SC
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Telephone

+14782830375

Website

https://www.dwellingtidedoula.com/

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