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The Mama Sherpas (2015) is a English movie. Brigid Maher has directed this movie. are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. The Mama Sherpas (2015) is considered one of the best Documentary,News movie in India and around the world.
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 15 percent. How can these disturbing trend be reversed? In recent years, the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwives manage women's care together has begun to gain traction in the United States. The Mama Sherpas is a feature-length documentary film about women receiving their maternity care through midwife-doctor teams. We follow nurse midwives, the doctors they work with, and their patients to provide an investigative lens into how midwives work within the hospital system.
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The Mama Sherpas (2015) Reviews
Collaboration and Education
Greetings again from the darkness. If you are not directly involved, it's easy to underestimate, or even remain oblivious, to the stress involved as an expectant mother makes baby-delivery decisions. In this age of readily available information, women can no longer simply accept what their doctor says. Documentarian Brigid Maher sets out to educate us on the options available to pregnant women. Ms. Maher opens our eyes to the growing trend of collaboration between doctors and midwives. One of the key factors in this shift is the fact that nearly one in three babies are now delivered via cesarean (C-section), even though the World Health Organization (WHO) says the figure should be closer to 15%. To her credit, Ms. Maher doesn't attack the medical establishment, but rather focuses on the positive effects of the collaboration. Speaking from her personal experience (as a VBAC – Vaginal Birth After Cesarian), and also presenting numerous actual case studies, she expertly guides us through various birth methods including yoga birth, hypnobirthing, and waterbirthing each a form of natural birth in a hospital environment. Viewers should be prepared for some up close and very personal camera work – especially when demonstrating that natural birth is even a possibility (in some cases) with a breech baby, a big baby, babies showing little progress, and extended-labor cases which have always been stressful to mother and child. Executive Producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein have allowed Ms. Maher to expose this little-known network of highly supportive midwives and doctors who firmly believe that Natural childbirth is preferable whenever possible. These folks (not surprisingly almost all women) are committed to the cause of helping the mother and baby through the process. This will prove informative to some, and inspirational to many though, of course, many within the traditional medical industry (the industry responsible for 33% c-sections) will argue that this method is unsafe for mother and baby. It doesn't appear this position holds water, as the collaborative method covers both the medical facilities and the natural (lack of medication) bonding between a mother and child. What a miracle of nature to behold!
What Women Want
After all of the terrible moments on various "reality" TV programs with screaming women, fear-mongering doctors and sterile, cold forceps, "The Mama Sherpas" is a documentary all humans need to experience. Along with "The Business of Being Born" and "Call the Midwife," Brigid Maher's story is, at once, enlightening, uplifting, heartening and informative. This documentary shares stories of VBAC, Caesarean births, first-time vaginal births, 3rd time births, and all birth experiences, in between. All women will benefit from viewing this film, discussing it with mates, and sharing it with anyone who was ever born. As every baby met the world and her/his mother for the first time in this film, I found myself beaming from ear to ear, pumping my fists into the air and cheering. Well done. Ms. Maher.