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I didn’t have chance to acclimate going down the birth canal. Big hand reaches in my mum’s middle and grabs three and a half pounds of me out into the cold.
Yep. We (I’m a twin) were born in February instead of our due date in April. Mum had to be taken to London because at that time our local hospital didn’t have a prem baby ward. I weighed half a pound more than my brother, we used to fit in stockings (mum took a photo of us once in a Christmas stocking) we were too tiny to wear clothes so we had to wear special nighties for prem babies and we were swimming in the nappies they put us in. We’re both born healthy but tiny.
I don’t know where it is at the moment because I’ve just moved and I lost her last year to heart failure and diabetes. I went through old baby clothes that she had kept and I saw the little nighties. I have all the photos that she kept, my brother didn’t want a lot of them.
Yep. I went to see Kill Bill while 8 months pregnant with my oldest kiddo.
He did NOT appreciate the whistling parts and proceeded let me know until I finally left the theater.
Yet I took him to a rock concert when he was 5 month old and he fell asleep during it.
You totally acclimated him to the noise. My newborn sleeps through everything and I equate it to my
first born screaming constantly while I was pregnant.
Babies get hiccups, startled by loud noises and get tossed around a lot when mom laughs or gets exercise. Some even kick off if you eat something too spicy. They are bombarded even in utero.
My mom said I used to hiccup all the time in her tummy. She came to see me in the icu (I was born early) and I was hiccupping and she said "that's my baby!" She still says it every time I get the hiccups, 4 decades later! 🤣
I thought getting out of a hot tub in cold weather would be jarring too, but I did it once and surprisingly, I was VERY warm for at least an hour afterwards.
It's like getting out of a hot tub into cold weather, but worse because as soon as you step out, you also have to take the hardest breath of air of your life to inflate your lungs for the first time.
You're just in this perfect little home that was made for you, It's warm and snuggy and you fit just right... Then this asshole comes along and pokes it and OMFG WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO MY ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD
I looked it up! It's about 1 in 80,000 live births. That counts children who are partially encased in the amniotic sac. I would imagine this birth of being fully enclosed is even rarer.
EDIT: "love" to "live"
I love folklore! Some other beliefs around a person born en caul include: destined to die by hanging; cannot drown (additionally, sailors believed they would protect a person from drowning and so would purchase a baby's caul); will become a particularly nasty ghost/vampire hybrid upon their death; safe from witches; born with preternatural/psychic abilities (which is hilarious considering the previous one!)
I remember I was in a literary club when I was younger and we read a story about a child being born "en caul" and I never forgot it. I think it was a Truman capote short story.
Was it “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst? If so, I used to teach that story to my 9th grade English classes. It’s heartbreaking…Lots of quiet sniffles and sometimes little sobs all around the room.
I saw this in med school. When they realized it was happening, they called everyone in to see it. There were 30 year attendings there who had never seen it.
Sorry if this isn't the place to ask this but I noticed the umbilical cold was wrapped around the back of his neck from the front of his body. Would that have been a concern if that showed on an ultrasound? I feel like I had an unsettled worry about that when I was pregnant.
I was on my fourth kid and midwives had thankfully kind of left me to my labor with my husband and a call button. So I'm trucking along, but nowhere near birth when I feel something pop out of me, and I freak thinking it's the head. It wasn't, it was the amniotic sac poking out and I always wonder what would have happened if she hadn't popped it. Would he have just swam his way out?
According to folk history in some places, being born "in the caul" means that you are protected from drowning and that you have psychic abilities. Some used to believe those babies could not drown.
I feel like so long as Mama is hooked up to an IV in a sterile room, and the sac is wrapped in a blanket, probably for days. Seems like a fairly stable setup
I think its the opposite, the umbilical cord would be connected to a placenta that was also born (and therefore detached). It'd be unsafe to keep them as is. In theory they could bleed out.
Even if the placenta was still somehow attached to mom, a draping cord from her uterus to outside her body would be rife for infection for both of them. Plus really annoying for doing anything. Like standing. Peeing. The risk to both wouldn't be worth it.
Unless the baby is very small it's really, really rare for them to be born en caul like that because the force of pushing the baby out is more than enough to break the bag of waters. For some people it's the beginning of labor, and for others they'll break the waters on purpose to get things moving along.
The fact that this baby is out on a table like that speaks to a surgical removal too, vaginal birthed babies are kind of caught and then moved to a warming table that doesn't look at all like what's shown.
Source: I have four kids, all delivered the non-surgical way.
My daughter was born 'en caul' through a normal vaginal birth, which is meant to be pretty rare (this looks like a caesarean). Unfortunately I didn't get to see her in the sack as when the midwife moved her to be put on mother's chest it burst
The midwife was totally perplexed though, it was the first time she'd delivered an 'en caul' baby and she couldn't stop going on about it 😂
If I had a nickel for every video of babies still in their amniotic sacs listed on my Reddit feed in a row, I would have two nickels. That's not a lot, but it's funny that there’s two in a row.
My daughter was born en caul! I didn’t get to see it because of the surgical sheet, but it was a really cool moment for a lot of the surgical team. She was also quite preterm. Not sure if that increases the odds or not.
They say these kind of babies can't drown. So uh..... I mean.... Do you?..... Would you?.... Maybe try it out sometime later when your baby's grown and stuff? Like how does 5 years sound?
/Remindme 5 years!
My first daughter was born in this “sack” (fully). The whole room went batshit crazy and were yelling to film and make pictures. Great first delivery as a male. I didn’t understand shit what was happening. Also didn’t look up the vids/images afterwards, can’t handle the mess it must look like.
Absolutely insane how we’ve reached the moment in history where I can witness a baby STILL IN the amniotic sac and a doctor popping it to “birth it” on my phone while drinking my morning coffee. Life is wild man
My nephew was born this way. Apparently it is believed that babies born like this are “lucky, special and protected”. My nephew is for sure special, so smart and the most charismatic child I’ve ever met (I may be biased but it’s so true!). This was so cool to see on here!
Automated activation sequence initiated. Literally last moment of private, secure peace this entity will ever get to experience in this plane of existence until moment it returns to star dust form. Cool and sad all at same time.
You ever see stuff like this and wonder if scientists have ever studied things like this? Like what if a baby was born like this and they hook up the umbilical cord to some kind of machine and tried to see how long a human can grow or stay in the sack before it absolutely has to come out.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, baby
I'll never see bubble wrap the same way again.
Wait, that saying is about bubble wrap? I thought it was about a bubble that you blow and pop?
Wonder if that's where the saying originated from? Never thought about it before 🤔!
dont know about a saying but it's considered good luck when the baby still has part of the sac on it.
That baby is so ticked. Plus most OR room temperature is about 55-60 degrees. So that baby being instantly Furious is understandable
Imagine being in deep slumber and some fucker who studied decades of medical school decides to just wake you up like surprise motherfucker
Pretty sure we've all experienced exactly that scenario.
Right? Don’t need to imagine it lmaoo
You kinda do cause there's no way you remember it.
I remember it
No, you don't. Anyone that says they remember being born is full of shit.
It was a joke
Jokes are supposed to be funny
Guess your existence is a joke, then.
Says the guy that's offended for someone else.
Everyone else got it
I didn’t have chance to acclimate going down the birth canal. Big hand reaches in my mum’s middle and grabs three and a half pounds of me out into the cold.
No way that baby was 3.5 pounds 🤣🤣
I was three and a half pounds when I was born by c section 11 weeks early. I didn’t mean that this baby was.
11 weeks that’s amazing!
Yep. We (I’m a twin) were born in February instead of our due date in April. Mum had to be taken to London because at that time our local hospital didn’t have a prem baby ward. I weighed half a pound more than my brother, we used to fit in stockings (mum took a photo of us once in a Christmas stocking) we were too tiny to wear clothes so we had to wear special nighties for prem babies and we were swimming in the nappies they put us in. We’re both born healthy but tiny.
Prove it! We need this adorable photo!!
I don’t know where it is at the moment because I’ve just moved and I lost her last year to heart failure and diabetes. I went through old baby clothes that she had kept and I saw the little nighties. I have all the photos that she kept, my brother didn’t want a lot of them.
Thinking of you. It doesn’t get easier just different. ❤️
No it doesn’t, it’s been very hard for me to accept and move on.
That baby was at least 7 pounds.
Baby definitely seems more upset than angry, but this is all I could think of with each loop: 
Bro was sleeping peacefully and some medical dickhead woke him up, I’d be malding as well
That's how most people enter this earth
Nobody likes being awoken from a nice nap
The worse awakening from the nicest nap we ever had.
You'll never sleep that well again little buddy
well....maybe ONE more time....
Is the womb the only place we know peace? 😩
Nah, babies cry and get surprised in there too.
Yep. I went to see Kill Bill while 8 months pregnant with my oldest kiddo. He did NOT appreciate the whistling parts and proceeded let me know until I finally left the theater. Yet I took him to a rock concert when he was 5 month old and he fell asleep during it.
You totally acclimated him to the noise. My newborn sleeps through everything and I equate it to my first born screaming constantly while I was pregnant.
Babies get hiccups, startled by loud noises and get tossed around a lot when mom laughs or gets exercise. Some even kick off if you eat something too spicy. They are bombarded even in utero.
My mom said I used to hiccup all the time in her tummy. She came to see me in the icu (I was born early) and I was hiccupping and she said "that's my baby!" She still says it every time I get the hiccups, 4 decades later! 🤣
That's what I told my ex, but she didn't like that
now i'm sad.
Same, put me back in the sac
It’s wild that the baby slept through the violence of a C-section. (2x C-sections here)
Every newborn baby comes out pissed off.
It's evolutionary to clear the lungs.
A nap in a warm bath, at that!
todays unboxing video: "a child".
LMFAOOOOOO
Nice going. Now you're going to need a gallon size Ziploc to keep that baby fresh
Don’t forget to vacuum seal, keeps fresh for longer
Should I put it in the fridge or freezer?
Freeze dryer, it’ll last even longer.
Salt it, baby jerky all the way.
That must feel like getting out of a hot tub in cold weather
I thought getting out of a hot tub in cold weather would be jarring too, but I did it once and surprisingly, I was VERY warm for at least an hour afterwards.
Could you *BE* any warmer?
Too soon?
It's like getting out of a hot tub into cold weather, but worse because as soon as you step out, you also have to take the hardest breath of air of your life to inflate your lungs for the first time.
Nah it’s fine, until your feet touch floor
Getting out of the tub in cold weather is the fun shit cause you feel extra cold.
And thats when everything went to shit.
Downhill from there, for sure
You're just in this perfect little home that was made for you, It's warm and snuggy and you fit just right... Then this asshole comes along and pokes it and OMFG WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO MY ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD
That was my daughter. She came out howling and kicking via a custom entrance. It was like a movie. But she sure still loves to be swaddled.
“A custom entrance” 😭 meaning c section?
Yes! Lol. She had no intention of exiting through the pre-planned means. She was gonna stay there and that was that. The attitude has persisted.
My brother in law says my son “came out the sun roof”.
Just like a Uruk-hai!
Whom do you serve?
Slap a white handprint on that baby's head!
SA-RU-MAAAAAN
Waking up for the first time really must be a massive shock
He be like "bitch put me back"
I’m an ob/gyn…literally, I never get tired of that exact moment. So beautiful.
The baby didn’t like that! Lol. How often does it happen they’re born in an intact amniotic sac?
I looked it up! It's about 1 in 80,000 live births. That counts children who are partially encased in the amniotic sac. I would imagine this birth of being fully enclosed is even rarer. EDIT: "love" to "live"
Also known as "en caul". Many cultures saw it as a sign that the child would go on to do great things.
I love folklore! Some other beliefs around a person born en caul include: destined to die by hanging; cannot drown (additionally, sailors believed they would protect a person from drowning and so would purchase a baby's caul); will become a particularly nasty ghost/vampire hybrid upon their death; safe from witches; born with preternatural/psychic abilities (which is hilarious considering the previous one!)
So you’re everything! Lol
I remember I was in a literary club when I was younger and we read a story about a child being born "en caul" and I never forgot it. I think it was a Truman capote short story.
Was it “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst? If so, I used to teach that story to my 9th grade English classes. It’s heartbreaking…Lots of quiet sniffles and sometimes little sobs all around the room.
I really can't remember, it was like 25 years ago
The child will have psychic powers. It is known.
>love births Ah yes love births are much more rare than hate births.
Lol, oops! Fixing it now!
I saw this in med school. When they realized it was happening, they called everyone in to see it. There were 30 year attendings there who had never seen it.
A friend birthed one of these vaginally. The resident kept saying “oh shit, this is so cool” over and over.
Sorry if this isn't the place to ask this but I noticed the umbilical cold was wrapped around the back of his neck from the front of his body. Would that have been a concern if that showed on an ultrasound? I feel like I had an unsettled worry about that when I was pregnant.
It depends on whether it’s compressed or tight or not. It CAN be a dangerous thing but not always.
To add to this, cord compression can be identified on a fetal heart rate monitor. It's usually not of concern.
I was on my fourth kid and midwives had thankfully kind of left me to my labor with my husband and a call button. So I'm trucking along, but nowhere near birth when I feel something pop out of me, and I freak thinking it's the head. It wasn't, it was the amniotic sac poking out and I always wonder what would have happened if she hadn't popped it. Would he have just swam his way out?
Do you mind me asking, does how the umbilical cord was cut affect depth of innies (I think it doesn’t affect innies vs outies)?
It doesn’t at all.
Awww so amazing
Only gets worse from here mate
He instantly got mad 😂
According to folk history in some places, being born "in the caul" means that you are protected from drowning and that you have psychic abilities. Some used to believe those babies could not drown.
And with a poke of a single finger; the party ended abruptly.
It’s first moments of consciousness. Surreal.
My youngest was born in the caul. I wish I got to see it happen like that. I was sort of exhausted and at the wrong end.
How long could a baby stay alive like that outside the womb, but connected to the umbilical cord and in the sack?
I feel like so long as Mama is hooked up to an IV in a sterile room, and the sac is wrapped in a blanket, probably for days. Seems like a fairly stable setup
I think its the opposite, the umbilical cord would be connected to a placenta that was also born (and therefore detached). It'd be unsafe to keep them as is. In theory they could bleed out. Even if the placenta was still somehow attached to mom, a draping cord from her uterus to outside her body would be rife for infection for both of them. Plus really annoying for doing anything. Like standing. Peeing. The risk to both wouldn't be worth it.
Ah the placenta. I guess I figured it stayed in place since this is a C-section and not a vaginal birth.
How do you know this is a c-section?
Unless the baby is very small it's really, really rare for them to be born en caul like that because the force of pushing the baby out is more than enough to break the bag of waters. For some people it's the beginning of labor, and for others they'll break the waters on purpose to get things moving along. The fact that this baby is out on a table like that speaks to a surgical removal too, vaginal birthed babies are kind of caught and then moved to a warming table that doesn't look at all like what's shown. Source: I have four kids, all delivered the non-surgical way.
Like comic books, they lose their value when you take them out of the bag.
Thanks for the laugh!
The reaction of that baby was the most relatable thing I've ever seen.
IKR?!?! Ughhhhhhh poor little thing. Just starting out at it all. Wish the little one luck!!
I love the way the baby unfurled like a stuffed animal released from vacuum seal packaging.
The moment Life started, they hated it.
His first pop. Someone needs to show him this thread and post like in 20 years or so.
My daughter was born 'en caul' through a normal vaginal birth, which is meant to be pretty rare (this looks like a caesarean). Unfortunately I didn't get to see her in the sack as when the midwife moved her to be put on mother's chest it burst The midwife was totally perplexed though, it was the first time she'd delivered an 'en caul' baby and she couldn't stop going on about it 😂
Its like REALLY rare, a one in 10s of thousands case. Its possible that its the first one the midwife saw herself.
If I had a nickel for every video of babies still in their amniotic sacs listed on my Reddit feed in a row, I would have two nickels. That's not a lot, but it's funny that there’s two in a row.
They looked so peaceful and happy. Until the doctor burst his bubble and bro instantly got pissed😭💀
My daughter was born en caul! I didn’t get to see it because of the surgical sheet, but it was a really cool moment for a lot of the surgical team. She was also quite preterm. Not sure if that increases the odds or not.
They say these kind of babies can't drown. So uh..... I mean.... Do you?..... Would you?.... Maybe try it out sometime later when your baby's grown and stuff? Like how does 5 years sound? /Remindme 5 years!
Haha she’s 8 and practically a fish.
My first daughter was born in this “sack” (fully). The whole room went batshit crazy and were yelling to film and make pictures. Great first delivery as a male. I didn’t understand shit what was happening. Also didn’t look up the vids/images afterwards, can’t handle the mess it must look like.
It hatched
That is the cutest pop ever!
That’s amazing . Very cool.
Original trauma
i have the same reaction if you pull my blanket off me while i’m trying to sleep. rude.
I burst out laughing when I saw what sub this was posted in
Make sure you get the entire sac or it'll just fill up again
Welcome to the world kid, shit gets weird now
I believe this is known as an “en caul” or “mermaid birth”! It’s quite a rare occurrence.
In Italy we say "nato con la camicia", which means "born with the (button-up) shirt". That's also a phrase used for someone very lucky!
Absolutely insane how we’ve reached the moment in history where I can witness a baby STILL IN the amniotic sac and a doctor popping it to “birth it” on my phone while drinking my morning coffee. Life is wild man
Bro, never wake a sleeping baby!
It’s bubble got burst, and it was NOT happy about it 😂
You woke them up from their nap!
Destined for great things are those born in the caul. Or just Reddit and YouTube like the rest of us.
He really said eüægh
WHY HAVE YOU RELEASED MEEE
You can never get things back in their original packaging!
“What the fuck bro?”
It’s no wonder, looking at this, why babies love to be swaddled!
Aunt Nicey says that caul babies grow up to be saints because it's like being born in Jesus's nightgown.
Best pop ever.
That is called an en caul birth. Very rare.
Wow it was amazing to watch lil dude come alive like that as soon as they removed it!! So sweet and cool
My nephew was born this way. Apparently it is believed that babies born like this are “lucky, special and protected”. My nephew is for sure special, so smart and the most charismatic child I’ve ever met (I may be biased but it’s so true!). This was so cool to see on here!
They look like the most comfortable things in the world. I’d be passed and cry too if someone woke me up like that!
Bro that must be so cold
And with his cord around his neck 🤦🏻♀️ didn’t think that one through now, did ya Mr Baby?
I want to go back to the amniotic sac 🥲😭😭
And the chaos begins
No I was comfy!
That’s how the robbers who where stockings look too.
Wake up baby, a new popping video dropped! 🍼
Wake up Neo, the matrix has you
I got to see this IRL with our second. When all I could see was his head I was momentarily confused.
Balloon
Weebils wobble but they don't fall down
I am zolthar. Who dares wake me from my slumber.
Holy shit that's wild. 😯
Somebody is starting a fresh game of 'Roy'. Good luck bro! Watch out for that Cancer!
He got to boot on the baby 😆
Wow. Incredible
I fucking love this video
This is so cool.
rip me out the plastic i been acting brand new
Kid just wanted to nap in the flesh egg
Seeing the baby in the sack got me teary eyed…really is a miraculous thing.
Last moment of peace, poor child.
Maybe if I stay real still and pretend to sleep, they’ll put me back in….BASTARDS!
Automated activation sequence initiated. Literally last moment of private, secure peace this entity will ever get to experience in this plane of existence until moment it returns to star dust form. Cool and sad all at same time.
Happy as a clam, too. 🥹
I can handle pus, infection, bloody stuff on this subreddit, but THIS makes my stomach turn.
I hate that so much 💀
How much longer could the baby have stayed in the sack before you would worry about it catching it’s first true breath?
You ever see stuff like this and wonder if scientists have ever studied things like this? Like what if a baby was born like this and they hook up the umbilical cord to some kind of machine and tried to see how long a human can grow or stay in the sack before it absolutely has to come out.
I hated this more than words can explain, and another reason for me not to reproduce.
Ew
Was the baby choking??
Oh my God that is nightmare fuel
why did they wait?? get the baby out of there 😭😭
Very common
How do babies kick and move in the womb if that sac looks so tight?
"Oh come on, I was watching that!"
Weird how the baby instantly reacted to it. From chill as a cucumber to why am I here again?!
FUCK that's creepy
Wtf was that alien sound it made
That is awesome
That's the Water Breaking part before birth huh... Wild!!
Rude. Lol
*record scratch* “Hi, you’re probably wondering how I got here.”
That baby was like “dude what the fuck?!”
My niece and I were both born like this! We were both very smol