Testimonial for Anna Tarasova

We would highly recommend Anna as a doula for anyone seeking such assistance. My labor started in the middle of the night and Anna came all the way down from NJ to Manhattan Lenox Hill hospital in a very short time. Her constant, graceful professionalism as a doula helped make a difficult birthing experience a much easier process which allowed us to concentrate on the important details. She helped me to make the right decisions at the right times, starting from my first trimester until the baby's doctor came to us with the child birth report. She insisted I have a natural birth when I started to hesitate in the last moment on whether to have an epidural or c-section. Anna comforted me and my husband and prepared us for the final moments of labor. She found the right words to calm me down and I'm glad that I listened to her and I have no regrets in my final decision. If Anna was not there, most likely I would have given up and asked for the easiest way of giving birth. She also asked the right questions to the doctor and nurses including checking on the fetus' position, heart beat and all other important details we were too distracted and tired to realize we should check on. Anna was a great help. We really appreciate her professionalism, unobtrusive presence, her flexibility and her experience with childbirth.

-Julia Kiosse

February 14, 2012