This is the moment a mother delivered her baby, en caul, meaning the baby is still inside his amniotic sac, eight weeks premature in the front seat of her own car.
Mother-of-two Raelin Scurry, from Pittsburgh in the US, was 29 weeks pregnant when she started to have intense contractions on August 5th. She initially dismissed them as just contractions, which sometimes happen at around the middle part of pregnancy.
She was rushed to hospital by her fiance Ean but along the way, her contractions worsened.
In her Instagram page, Ms Scurry wrote: “The contractions continued to get closer together and more intense and before I knew it, I knew it was time to push.
“I called 911 because I was so scared. They couldn’t understand me between the screams with contractions. So I handed the phone to my fiance.
“I pulled my pants off and reached down, sure enough his head was right there. I pushed one time and my miracle baby was here.”
However, what’s more beautifully surprising was that her baby, who she named Ean Jamal, was born en caul, which means he was still enclosed in his amniotic sac when he was born. “When I looked down I realized he was still completely wrapped in the amniotic sac,” Ms Scurry said.
Ean Jamal, who weighed 3lbs 1oz, is just one in 80,000 births.
Being delivered en caul means the amniotic sac that Ean Jamal was carried in inside the womb did not break when he was delivered.
The sac is filled with fluid that allows the growing baby an environment to develop in the womb where it can breathe freely. When women go into labour, this sac breaks and the liquid drains out, which is more commonly known as the waters breaking.
Ean Jamal initially sparked panic among the couple as he was originally still when he was born, but he eventually ‘rubbed his face’ using Ms Scurry’s thumb and ‘pulled his little hands up’. This reassured Ms Scurry that her baby was healthy.
It took the couple seven minutes more before they arrived at the hospital where they were greeted by staff running to their car before medics opened the amniotic sac Ean Jamal was in.
“He’s doing wonderful all things considered. I know he’s going to be an awesome little man! He is truly a miracle baby. We are so blessed to be his parents,” Ms Scurry said.
Source: Dailymail.co.uk