Rare birth: Baby born completely encased in amniotic sac

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This story is absolutely amazing...

Want to share with the forum. What a cute little guy and so surreal to see. 1 in every 80,000 births, wow.

Rare birth: Baby born completely encased in amniotic sac | KSL.com

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Nah, it's really not that rare. I've been a nurse for 10 years, in L&D for 6, and I've seen it twice. It IS very cool, though. Babies born "in the caul" are supposed to have psychic abilities.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Seen it a couple times at my place too. It is really neat.

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Specializes in NICU.

I like the comment in the video

that the baby was "in a fetal position!" Uh...you know where that term comes from, right? :sarcastic:

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

We see this more with preemies, but it is cool! It was once thought if you were born with a caul, you were a witch.

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I like the comment in the video

that the baby was "in a fetal position!" Uh...you know where that term comes from, right? :sarcastic:

That cracked me up too! I would have had a hard time not responding with, "you don't say!" :sarcastic:

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

I'm surprised by this admission:

So Silas' doctor snapped a photo with his cellphone.
You'd think that they'd be a bit more careful about snapping cell phone photos and then going on public record about it. Yes, the family took part in the interview, but I highly doubt there's a permission form signed for a physician to take photos with a personal cell phone.
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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I'm just trying to figure out the logistics of snapping a photo on one's cell phone while maintaining a sterile field. I'm guessing someone else must have actually grabbed the phone out of his scrubs and took the picture.

But I would guess that they got permission from the family before publicizing the photo.

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It would probably happen more often if amniotomy wasn't as common.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

So Dr. Binder 'unbound' the baby. Cool!

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Specializes in Neonatal.
It would probably happen more often if amniotomy wasn't as common.

This is exactly my first thought when I read this headline initially.

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

This happened in my ER's triage once. Very weird to see.

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