The Mama Sherpas

In 2012| one in three babies in America were delivered by c-section| despite the World Health Organization's recommendation that Cesarean births remain below 15percent. How can these disturbing trend be reversed? In recent years| the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwives manage women's caretogether has begun to gain traction in the United States. The Mama Sherpas is a feature-length documentary film about women receiving their maternity care throughmidwife-doctor teams. We follow nurse midwives| the doctors they work with| and their patients to provide an investigative lens into how midwives work within thehospital system.