How many of our May babies were born in the caul?

[Synchro246]

I can think of three or four of us off the top of my head. That's like two per hundred, which is much more common than I thought.

I want to hear the details of your in-the-caul birth.

I had a cervical lip pushed back and powerful pushing urges. In the 6 minutes from the cervical lip reduction to the birth I went from laying down to kneeling to walking to the bathroom to squattingish to hands and knees. I felt the head come out and the head was born completely and my hand was over the head when the sac broke. I kinda thought I may have broken it, I don't know.

[MommyTeesa]

not me, but ...

I had a hospital birth, got there complete with membranes intact and allowed them to break my water in the hopes that it might ensure he'd be out sooner (heck he was born a few minutes later - I was at the hospital 15 min. before he was born (that includes checking in at L&D) and funny, they kept saying "your water broke, right?"). Now I wish I would tried to see if he'd been born in the caul. Sorry, just greving about what would have been if I'd had a home birth.

[veganbaby]

I birthed at home and allowed my midwife to breaqk my midwife. I wander if pushing would have been easier.

[Munchkimo]

My daughter was born in the caul. I started getting the urge to push at 6cm, dilated completely about six or seven? contractions later (it was so hard not to push during those contractions!), and as I was pushing, asked my midwife if the head should feel so smooth and squishy. I felt like I was pushing out a water balloon and I was tempted to break it with my fingernails. I pushed on my knees at first, but ultimately gave birth standing up in the birthing pool. She slipped out of my husbands hands and into the water and when we pulled her up, we peeled the membranes off of her face. I believe the sac ruptured as her body was born.

[BrooklynDoula]

Laura, ours were almost the same! I had an overwhelming urge to push, nothing like last time and in 10 minutes I switched over and over and finall he came out with membranes over his head and they brooke at his forehead came out and he was born SO quick with a rush of water behind him pushing him out in one quick movement.

[Krystal323]

Well, my water must have "sprung a leak" and then resealed several days prior to Claire's birth...that may have been why the nurse said i was measuring 33cm when i ended up at the hossy. Anyway, they checked me and said "oh you're only 4-5 cm" and left. Once i was alone with DP there, i felt less scared, so the contrax got wicked Maybe 30-45 min later i had to push. I was already pushing when the drs/nurses came in--they only checked on me cause i was howling, lol. 5?-10?-15? min after they all came in, Claire's head was out, and DP said the drs took some kind of clamp and pulled/cut the bag of waters away from her head then.