Surely you will discover for the first time that there is another type of childbirth and at the same time so surprising. It's about the blanket babies a way of being born and coming into the world covered in the intact amniotic sac, without it having yet suffered its breakage. It is a very strange type of birth and you should know that neither the baby nor the mother have to suffer for it.
It is a very special birth and some judge it as unique and magical, where many beliefs could even say that these children will be different and lucky in their future. The normal thing and before delivery is that this type of membrane that covers the baby's body breaks when contractions start, but for some special reason this type of birth has not occurred.
Why are they called blanket babies?
They are called blanket babies to be born with the amniotic sac unbroken, and without getting to detach the amniotic fluid. They are the so-called veiled births or called "the Venetian veil". This membrane that surrounds them during pregnancy becomes fragile and susceptible, but for other reasons it can become much more resistant than we think.
Reasons why this event occurs
It is not known for sure why it occurs. A woman before giving birth tends to break her waters naturally, but for other reasons she does not and during childbirth it tends to break. For other reasons and these less explained It is when we find the amniotic sac intact and this case becomes very special in itself.
No reasons found. but there are events that lead to this factEither because for medical reasons the delivery has been accelerated or hasty caesarean sections have been performed where the rupture of her bag has not been taken into account. Others and less occasional is the increase in natural births at home where this type of event could have happened when it happened naturally. Now and due to the great technologies we can see this type of births recorded and photographed more frequently.
Blanket babies are not very recurrent, these births occur 1 in every 80.000 births so bringing such a baby into the world is synonymous with magic and future luck. These children are attributed by some beliefs that they will be people with great gifts, with high capacities to heal and will be protected by water.
The importance of the amniotic sac
This amniotic sac forms between the eighth and ninth day after fertilization. It is made up of two membranes, an inner one called the amnion and an outer one called the chorion. The amnion is the one that mainly protects the embryo and is filled with a saline fluid called amniotic fluid.. This membrane offers comfort to the fetus, since it cushions it from shocks, regulates its body temperature and helps it to move within its space. This fluid causes waste substances to enter the maternal circulation to be excreted.
This liquid reaches 600 to 800 ml capacity, it increases in size as the fetus grows. Here the baby will swallow and inhale this liquid and expel it through urination, even helping his lungs to develop.
During the delivery This amniotic sac will break to allow air to pass into the baby's lungs. Your breathing is carried out by gas exchange through the placenta, where after the rupture of this bag your lungs expel this liquid and already begin to prepare for your first inhalation of air.