Anyone seen a birth where the baby was born in their waters?

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My third was born three weeks ago, and my waters never broke. He come out in two quite tiny pushes, and I think the midwife broke his waters once his head was out. Too pre-occupied at the time to think much about it, but I can't really imagine what it must have looked like. I have an image in my mind of him coming out looking like he has a pair of tights on his head!

If any one has seen this happen, I would be intrigued to hear what it looks like.

Thanks.

One of the Mners gave birth recently with the waters intact, she had something like a week of niggly labour!

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I googled a pic here

It's meant to be v lucky Congrats!!

Gecko was born with waters intact

so dh saw it but I haven't asked him about how different it looked to dd2

The midwife said it was supposed to be very lucky

I had a very quick labour

I think it's "born in the caul"

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good news is that he'll never drown.

ds2 was and it looked like that picture.

Yes. It was amazing!

Thanks - the links are great. I'll adjust my tights over head image to cling film instead.

I'll probably sound quite ignorant now, but is the placenta contained within the sac also? If so, if the midwife hadn't popped the membranes while his head was out, does that mean that the whole thing including placenta would have come out, or would it have been difficult to get him out as the placenta wouldn't have been ready?

My DD1 was bor in her waters, midwife cuts sack open when she appeared, don't remember seeing anything to be honest, completely usless answer. Sorry

no placenta not in sac

Yes, our daughter! And I saw it all..
Actually, that was the only moment during the whole thing
when I was slightly concerned:
a) she did not make a sound
b) she looked like an alien as the caul was blueish
All three midwives looked delighted, though, which was reassuring.

No, the placenta was separate outside the amniotic sac.