Photos: Healthy Baby Delivered Still Inside His Amniotic Sac

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Silas was delivered three months prematurely inside his amniotic fluid at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California. His hands and feet were clearly visible – but baby Silas Philips was in no rush to enter the world. And doctors performing the Caesarean section on his mother, Chelsea, were astonished to see he his amniotic sac was still intact.Pictures show Silas curled up inside with the placenta and umbilical cord, his tiny hands and a leg clearly visible. More pictures after the break

Until the bag was broken, Silas was still getting oxygen through the placenta. Doctors who delivered say the moment 'caught out breath'
Silas Philips was born three months prematurely at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California. Doctors performing the Caesarean section were astonished to see he was still in his amniotic sac