5 Reasons Why You Need a Doula

A doula is a labor support professional who can assist you when going through childbirth. Traditionally, women were always attended by other experienced women to help them get through this difficult life transition. In the modern day hospital setting, women are generally unattended until it is time to actually deliver. This means a first time mom could spend 16-18 hours feeling completely alone. The nurses will hook you to the monitor, and check on you about once an hour.

A doula is a professional, trained to handle the non-clinical aspects of labor. She is familiar with the process of childbirth and how to guide you through the progression of labor with effectiveness. This is the only experienced professional who stays with the mother from the time her labor is active, until after the baby is born.

here are 5 reasons a mom will want a doula by her side:

1.The mother will have professional help in developing a birth plan, as a doula assists the new parents in understanding all the available options

2.The mother will have an experienced professional by her side continuously during labor

3.The mother will be physically comforted by the doulas comfort measures, including warm compresses, massage, relaxation and breathing techniques

4.The partner will have support and guidance in how to help the mother during labor

5.The couple will have a beautiful account of what happened during labor, as a doula will keep a record and many mothers lose focus of the time

These are just a few things that a doula can do for you! here is what Jacksonville moms are saying about having a doula for their birth:

She [our doula] provided us with important prenatal information and practice relaxation techniques that assisted my husband and me to feel prepared for the birth.

The positive outcome of our labor was directly impacted by our doulas birthing expertise and her ability to assist me in managing my labor. We would not have been able to have a natural, non-medicated delivery without our doula!

This was the best money we spent when preparing for our new baby!

Educate yourself and hire and doula to help you have a shorter, easier birth and a wonderful birth experience.

Sita Payne Romero, LMT, CD

Sita specializes in preparing expectant mothers to have a comfortable pregnancy, and achieve their ideal birth experience. She is a certified doula, a licensed and certified pregnancy massage therapist and a prenatal yoga teacher. She owns a private practice in Jacksonville, FL. For more information, and helpful articles please visit our Jacksonville Doula and Pregnancy Massage Resource Page

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The Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club

Often when you first start playing golf you will find it extremely difficult to get your golf swing right. You may well find that even though your swing looks right you are still having difficult in getting your golf score down. This is because often you have not spent enough time in learning about the proper way to swing a golf club. Certainly a lot of golfers are mistaken that just because their swing looks good then they will be much more successful at playing the game. Even if your swing does look good it does not mean that you have actually learnt the right or proper way in which it should be swung. In fact when it comes to swinging your golf club correctly you may well find that it takes you a long time to master this particular skill.

Below we provide some tips which should help you to learn about how to swing your golf club properly and this may well help to take a few shots of your overall golf score next time you play.

The first thing that you can do in order to improve the way you swing your golf club is to look at the way you grip the club and then start to improve it. Often a lot of players who have taken up golf as a hobby will forget about the way in which they are actually gripping the club in their hands. It does not matter what kind of grip it is that you use (whether it be intertwined or over lapped) you need to make sure that the pressure you are placing on the club handle is neither to tight or loose. Also make sure that you are gripping the handle with your hand rather than just your fingers and that your wrists remain relaxed at all times, but neither should they be loose.

As well as looking at the ways your hands are gripping the club you should look carefully at the way you stand. Your stance and your body should at all times be level with your feet and these should be far enough apart in order to provide you with a good level of balance yet you should still feel comfortable whilst stood in this position.

As for when you go into the back swing position (where you take the club up and behind your head) it is important that this is relaxed and your arms are in a position which is level with the grass under your feet. Generally your club should be held in a position of around 90 degrees.

Above we have looked at some of things that can help to ensure that you learn the proper way to swing a golf club. But even using these will not help to improve it overnight, in fact it may take weeks, months even years before you are actually swinging your golf club in the correct manner.

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