Your Doula Team 

Sherri and Chris work as a team to bring you the best pregnancy and birth support possible.  In working as a team, you will receive many benefits that you would not get working with just one doula.  You have the opportunity to experience pregnancy and birth support unlike any other doula service in the CNY area.   ​​ ​

Knowledgable & Experienced

Sherri and Chris bring over 20 years of combined doula experience to your birth team!  You benefit from the knowledge and experience that 2 doulas have received attending hundreds of hours of trainings on various birth related topics and thousands of hours attending many different types of births including hospital and home births, vaginal, cesarean and VBACS, unmedicated and medicated and everything in between. 

Smart

Why a doula team?  Because two heads are better than one!  The benefit of having a doula team at your birth would be twice the support, twice the knowledge, twice the experience and twice the energy!  ​

Reliable

​Doulas who work independently have a back up doula they may call upon if sick, attending a family emergency or attending another birth.  You have the benefit of knowing exactly who will be attending your birth...no last minute backups...just the 2 doulas you have come to know and trust throughout your pregnancy.

Refreshed 

Because you have hired two doulas you will always have a fresh, rested doula with new ideas and techniques to bring to your labor and birth.  When one doula is with you the other doula is always available to give suggestions and support and to provide back up to the doula on call. ​​

More about Sherri: 

As a birth doula since 2011, Sherri Morris has tremendous passion for helping women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.  Sherri supports and trusts in a woman’s choice to give birth in whatever way she feels most comfortable and empowered.  As a childbirth educator she desires for each birthing couple to be well informed on the twists and turns they may encounter during their birth.  She has an open heart to each woman's birth she attends and, as a doula, encourages each birthing woman to have a vision for her birth but also, an open heart to however her birth may unfold. 
 
Sherri received her birth doula certifications from Life Cycles Center in Buffalo, NY in 2011 and Hypnobabies in 2016 as well as training with Doula Trainings International as a birth and postpartum doula in 2016.  Since completing her certification she has received instruction as a childbirth educator with Appletree Family Ministries, trained with Breastfeeding USA, Birthing from Within and Hearthside in perinatal loss and bereavement, and a certified Infant Sleep Educator through Bebo Mia.  Her future professional goals include training as an Newborn Care Specialist and Happiest Baby on the Block educator.
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In 2001 Sherri married her husband Mike they have 4 beautiful children and live outside of Syracuse, NY.  Their family also includes a rescue dog and 2 sweet kitties that adopted her family.

More about Chris:

Chris Herrera’s passion for birth began with the homebirth of her first son. With more than 14 years of extensive experience, she is proud to have helped hundreds of women and families. Chris brings experience, unbiased information, and reliable care to her clients. Her approach to birth always aims for compassion and adaptability since every woman is unique and important. 

Chris is a DONA certified birth doula since 2006 and is a founding member of the CNY Doula Connection. Chris has continued to add to her professional trainings and certifications by becoming a postpartum doula, childbirth educator, certified placenta encapsulation specialist, certified lactation counselor, labor and postpartum acupressure certified, Rebozo trained, belly binding trained, and licensed to offer massage therapy. Chris’ most rewarding accomplishments in her career has been the start of her certifiable training workshop for aspiring childbirth educators and has written “Birth Beautifully’s Educated Childbirth,” a childbirth education course manual for expecting families. 

Chris resides outside of Syracuse, NY with her husband of 17 years and their three beautiful children, and one very spoiled pug.

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
~Helen Keller