In the United States, more than half a million babies are born prematurely each year (12.8% of all births). This is an increase of more than 36% since the 1980s. More than 70% are born between 34 and 36 weeks. 22% are born between 28 and 33 weeks; 6% are born before 28 weeks. Duke University Former Pediatric Chief Resident Dr. Alison Sweeney knew that one of the most daunting rotations for pediatric residents and medical students was the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Few came to the experience as a parent and many were intimidated by the machinery and how tiny the infants were. As a way to better understand the perspectives of parents with infants in the unit, Dr. Sweeney produced multimedia pieces about three mothers. In this talk, she shares this work and discusses how producing this project impacted her practice as a physician. Documenting Medicine is a program at Duke University which provides Duke physician residents and fellows with the tools and training to use documentary as a way to get to know and better understand patients and their families, as well as care-givers. This program is a partnership between the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and the Graduate Medical Education Department at Duke. Pilot funding has been provided by the Chancellor's Innovation Fund. For more information about the program, visit: documentingmedicine.com/