'Incredible!' Amazing moment baby is born inside intact amniotic sac caught on camera

'The bottom line is that while it's uncommon, it's only around 10 seconds.'

A rare birth was captured in a home video when a child is removed from its mother's stomach via c-section with the amniotic sac, called a caul, still intact.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The amazing footage shows the child cleanly placed on its mother's stomach after doctors remove it from her belly.

The child's face can be seen through the sac and the doctor gently massages it, revealing how strong the caul is.

After a few seconds of touching the sac, the doctor gently punctures it with their fingers and the caul splits open, revealing the healthy baby within.

The amazing footage, which has the caption: "Wow. Another en caul birth video. Who does this one belong to?! Incredible!" has been viewed 1.1 million times and has been shared nearly 10,000 times on Facebook.

Over 2,500 people have left comments including, "Another God miracle. Beautiful birth" and "Amazing....watching a child birth is the awesome [sic] think to see!!!"

While some commenters voiced concerns for whether the child received enough oxygen during its time in the sac, leading Brisbane-based gynecologist and obstetrician, Dr Gino Pecoraro told Daily Mail the child seemed perfectly safe.

"All I could see was that they had made a cut in the uterus and then the sac ballooned out so from all I know the placenta is still attached to the wall of the uterus and the fusion of oxygen and nutrients is still occurring.

"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."

Some commenters wondered at the placenta's location but Dr. Pecoraro explained it was completely normal. "Where did they think the placenta would be?" he asked.

"This is one of those times where things that may appear normal to people who are trained and know what they are looking at look very different to someone who may not know the intricacies of what the inside environment of an abdomen or a uterus looks like."

He explained the child seemed to be just fine and stated: "I don't think that you can say the baby is distressed from that clip at all. We know that from looking at babies with the high quality ultrasounds that we have today that they breathe in and out and that's important to fill their lungs with fluid as it helps their lungs to grow.

"They can make sucking movements, they can put fingers in their mouths. There are cute photos of babies smiling and waving. They can do all manner of facial mechanisms but I wouldn't say the baby was crying...it was moving it's mouth."

Caul births fall at one in every 80,000 births, which was once said to be a good omen.

"In the olden days babies that were born in the sac were told they should be sailors because if you were born in the caul you were supposed to never be able to drown. That was the old wives tale which was very cute," Dr. Pecoraro stated.

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