Any one heard of this?
With our first born, labour went quite well. (Read, the wife is awesome. When others would moan, she just got on with it!) But when the first 'real' contractions started, I called the midwife to see how it was going. She followed the usual advice, ie it had to be too early, the wife was blatently having the first signs, not the last!
Whilst on the 'phone, Mrs Grinner noticed something "coming out".
I mentioned this to the midwife, probably sounding a bit hurried, watching what looked like a pink balloon coming out her nethers.
"Come in then- NOW!" cried the midwife.
Now this is the fun bit. Her waters never broke. The sack came out in one whole bit, fluid inside like a water bomb. So I'm left holding this gourd shaped bag of straw water wondering what the hell to do with it.

Not a soul at the hospital believed me when I told them. The baby must have wriggled, Houdini style, out of the sack and pushed it out of the way to get out himself.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 12:52, 2 replies)

My second child
was an accidental home delivery - born in the bathroom.

I could not see due to being on my knees, but the bag came out while I was still in labour and being slightly opaque, caused the father to think that he could see an arm floating in there. It wasn't but not nice to think about in that situation.

She is a happy and healthy nearly 11 year old now.
(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 22:28, closed)

I have
It is called a "Caul"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caul
(lochii, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 20:19, closed)