Rare birth: Baby born completely encased in amniotic sac

Days before he’s scheduled to leave the hospital, he’s already gone viral on social media because he was born ‘en caul.’

Silas was completely encased in his amniotic sac, said Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in a Facebook post. That’s so rare, that even doctors delivering babies hardly see it. So Silas’ doctor snapped a photo with his cell phone.

It looked like the baby was trapped in a big water bubble.

It’s particularly surprising in a C-section, because the scalpel usually pierces the amniotic sac.

The doctors must have missed Silas’s.

CNN