Breathtaking images show a baby boy being born while still INSIDE his amniotic sac
Womb with a view! Breathtaking footage shows how a baby boy is born while still IN his amniotic sac
- Jacqueline Melo Oliveira said her son looked ‘like a doll coming out of a bubble’
- Normally, the amniotic sac that protects the baby ruptures at the onset of labour
Breathtaking photos show a baby boy being born while still in his amniotic sac.
Jacqueline Melo Oliveira, 43, from Salvador, Brazil, described her son Bernardo as “like a doll emerging from a bubble.”
Photos taken during his birth show his face crushed against the side of the fluid-filled sac.
Normally, the sac, which protects the baby during its nine-month stay in the womb, breaks at the beginning of labour.
When this happens, it is known as a mother’s membranes rupturing.
Jacqueline Melo Oliveira, 43, from Salvador, Brazil, described her son Bernardo as “like a doll emerging from a bubble.” Photos taken during his birth show his face crushed against the side of the fluid-filled sac
Speaking about Bernardo’s extraordinary birth, Ms. Oliveira told reporters in Brazil, “It’s amazing, isn’t it? Perfect.’ She is pictured after giving birth with her partner Darlan Ribeiro and their twins Bernardo and Rafael. Rafael was normally born a minute before Bernardo
One in 80,000 babies is born en caul, when the protective jelly-like bubble fails to burst. Pictured Bernardo when he was born
But one in 80,000 babies is born “en caul,” when the protective jelly-like bubble fails to burst.
Speaking about Bernardo’s extraordinary birth, Ms. Oliveira told reporters in Brazil, “It’s amazing, isn’t it? Perfect.
“It looks like a doll coming out of a bubble.
“I used to see it on other people’s social networks, but I never thought it would happen to mine.”
She revealed that she had been trying to conceive for 14 years before finally giving birth to Bernardo and his twin brother, Rafael.
The latter, who weighed nearly 5 pounds, was born normal at Hospital Portuges in Salvador.
Bernardo was born a minute later and weighed about 7 pounds 7 oz.
Jose Carlos Jesus Gaspar, the doctor responsible for the delivery, said there was no danger.
He added: “As long as he was in the bag, that means he’s been in the environment he’s been in for the last nine months.
“There’s no sudden change in the birth process.”
Doctors begin to gently cut away the sac to open it, allowing fluid to filter out — similar to popping a water-filled balloon.
Numerous myths and beliefs surround skull births, which are also called mermaid or veiled births.
One is that babies are somehow destined for greatness or will be lucky in life – with many historical figures said to have been born this way.
Another false belief is that those born with the skull can never drown.
The amniotic sac is the jelly-like sac of fluid that encases the fetus. It is made of two membranes, the amnion and the chorion.
Although thin, it is robust and retains an increasing amount of fluid during gestation, including fetal urine.
In an ‘en caul’ birth, the main priority is to break the sac to allow the baby to breathe, as they are deprived of oxygen because they are inside their mother.