This preemie baby was born in his amniotic sac in the front seat of a car
Only thing rarer than being born en caul? Being born en caul in the passenger seat
Only thing rarer than being born en caul? Being born en caul in the passenger seat
When Raelin Scurry felt a contraction at 29-weeks, she brushed it off as Braxton Hicks. It was too early! But the waves of pain kept coming though, and after 45-minutes she and her fiancé, Ean, packed a bag, got into their car and dropped Scurry's daughter off at her godmother's house. Ready or not, it was go-time.
No, really — this baby meant business. Ten minutes out from the hospital, those contractions came faster and harder. "Before I knew it, I knew it was time to push," Scurry wrote in an .
Terrified of delivering her premature baby in the front seat of her car, she called 911. "They couldn't understand me between the screams with contractions," Scurry, who according to Facebook lives in Pittsburgh, wrote. "I pulled my pants off and reached down, sure enough his head was right there. I pushed one time and my miracle baby was here."
If you thought car births were rare, try this one out — Scurry's (en caul), something that happens only 1 in 80,000 births (and usually only appear during gentler Cesarian deliveries). A baby born en caul in the front seat of a car? This might very well be a first.
Even more miraculous than Scurry's baby's delivery are her instincts that kicked in as soon as he was out. "At first the baby was still and all I could do was pray he would be okay. And then I rubbed his face with my thumb and he pulled his little hands and feet up to his face as if he understood my prayers and wanted to reassure us he was okay," she wrote, on leaving her 3-pound, 1-ounce son inside the amniotic sac.
"I let the doctors open it when we got to there — they opened it right outside of the hospital," Raelin told . "I knew he wouldn't be able to breathe on his own with him being so early, so I left him in there."
Those instincts most likely saved her child's life. Today, Scurry's "awesome little man," named Ean Jamal Vanstroy Jr., is doing well, "all things considered." "He is truly a miracle baby," his mom wrote. "We are so blessed to be his parents."
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