Baby born in sac - I'm confused

[jenrose29]

I had my beautiful baby a few days ago. About 15 minutes before she was born my waters broke and I then climbed onto the bed and within a few pushes she was out. However, she was born still in the sac. I was wondering how this can be if my waters broke? Does it mean they only partially broke?? I was under the impression that being born in the sac is very rare because hospitals break your waters for you if they don't break by themselves, but I don't understand how I did both?? Apologies if it's a really stupid question!

My daughter was born 'in the caul'

Apparently it means she will never drown

My sac and waters were intact until her head touched the floor. Then there was a tsunami I am told

Oh and congratulations :)

Did you keep them? I've heard sailors will pay a ransom for them.

I was told they will only break your waters if your labour isn't progressing. So if your progressing fine then they wont do it. And it is very lucky!

Are there not fore and hind waters? No medic tho!

But they did break and then when she was born she was in the sac...so am confused as to how both can be the case?

There are yes, I had considered that could be the case but wasn't sure?

I think there is the sac which the baby is in and another sac of waters to help coushion the baby as with my daughter I felt something come out and it was an intact sac of waters which the midwife then burst.

I'm confused, too. My waters didn't 'go' and they weren't broken until just before she was vaccuumed out via ventouse.

I'm told by DH that when I was pushing, he could see DD1 through a "cloudy membrane", which was also being pushed out (and then slipping back in, hence the need for assistance). I assume this must have been the sac?

How that man found me attractive enough after that to go on to make another baby with me will forever be a mystery, too!

There are two layers of membrane, and I think most of the water is between them - so maybe the outer layer broke and the inner one didn't. Not a medic though so might be wrong!

Or maybe your waters broke but the remnants if the sac were still around your baby

Dp said our dd looked like she was in a condom

Its like the baby is in a balloon. When your waters broke, a hole would have appeared in the balloon but the balloon stayed around your baby when she was born iyswim.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caul#Notable_people_born_.22in_the_caul.22

Byron and Freud no less! am ignoring Liberace

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caul#Notable_people_born_.22in_the_caul.22

gah!

I wonder if it was your hind waters that went.

You don't have to have your waters broken if they don't go on their own.

I've seen a baby born in the caul, in fact, I caught her. It's the birth that remains etched in my mind.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.

Mars -can you explain what hind waters actually are please? I've seen this term before, but don't understand what it means.

HELLO MARS!

Congrats OP!

Hind waters are the waters behind the baby that tend to come after the baby exits the birth canal.

Olivia... if you go for number 3, I'm happy to give you a call to explain exactly how that birth will go.

Imagine a baloon. Baby is inside the ballon. Head is down plugging the only way out.

You can have a littele hole at the top end and a 'hindwater' leak. With lots of the rest of the water still around the baby. And in particular a bubble of intact membrane in front of babys head (forewaters).

So you could have a 'waters gone' from a little hole up the top. But when babys head comes out it is still in a bubble. Of waters. And born 'in the caul'.

It is very beautiful and lovely to see.

So many spelling mistakes. Sorry.

DameHermione nails it!

My DD2 was born in her intact bag of waters into the hands of a wonderful student MW doing her first 'catch' (as she described it) I was a little freaked initially by it as I expected a baby shaped baby not a baby in the bag. Now I realise it was an amazing thing to see.

Thank you! That's a brilliant description. I'm now puzzling as to what on earth could generate a hole high up? I'd always assumed (perhaps wrongly) that it was the presenting part and front end of the sac being squashed against the cervix that causes the pop.