Watch the amazing moment a baby is born still completely secure inside the amniotic sac
The remarkably rare delivery saw docs break open the bag on the mum's stomach
A VIDEO has captured the amazing moment a baby was born still inside the amniotic sac.
The incredible footage shows doctors removing the baby from the uterus while it is still completely secure inside the intact amniotic sac – also known as caul.
The baby was born via C-section and the clip was later shared by Facebook page .
Medics then carefully place the baby on its mother's stomach before one of them to breaks the amniotic sac open using their fingers.
The video was first shared on Wednesday, and has already been viewed over a whopping 1.1 million times.
However, not all viewers were convinced that it was a safe birth.
One questioned: “Omg he's crying in there! I know he's safe and getting adequate oxygen but it makes you think, do they do this often?”
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“This is honestly scary. The placenta is next to the sac so it's obviously no longer attached to the uterine wall, which means it's no longer working”, another added.
However, gynaecologist and obstetrician, Dr Gino Pecoraro told that these assumptions are incorrect.
“The bottom line is that while it's uncommon, it's only around 10 seconds. You could take much longer to get a baby out during a difficult caesarean so I wouldn't think that anything that happened here was unsafe.”
He also added that he did not think that the baby was distraught.
“I don't think that you can say the baby is distressed from that clip at all”, he said.
Caul births are remarkably rare and only one in 80,000 vaginal births see a baby born inside the amniotic sac.
Historically, a caul birth was even said to be lucky – with babies born in the sac being believed to never be able to drown.