The 33-year-old woman had developed a 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) tear in the wall of her uterus, and through the tear, part of the amniotic sac measuring 7.5 by 4.7 by 3.5 inches (19 by 12 by 9 cm ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four ...

In the video, which has more than 1.1 million views on Facebook, you see the doctor remove the bulbous sac that houses the infant—sort of like an alien water balloon—from the mother’s stomach.

Such amniotic sac helmet births are rare enough, but to have the entire baby inside the sac, or ‘en caul,’ occurs in less than one in 80,000 births, Cedars-Sinai said.

This is the incredible moment a new-born baby arrived still inside its amniotic sac, completely intact. The tiny infant can be seen moving and stretching still inside the sac, as medics prepare to ...

And with only one in approximately 80,000 babies born this way, a recording of a baby being removed from its sac and taking its first cry is something you won’t get to see every day. But today ...

Researchers have coaxed stem cells to grow into amniotic sacs filled with fluid 1. The model sacs, which grew to roughly the same size as a four-week-old sac surrounding a developing embryo, could ...

Silas Johnson born still in the amniotic sac at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, part of the Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Dec. 6th, 2014 in Los Angeles.

Babies being born still encased within the entire amniotic sac, known as an en-caul birth, are rare. It generally occurs in fewer than one in 80,000 cases. Baby Silas Philips was born this way ...

FOX 32 NEWS - An image of a baby’s legs protruding from its mother’s womb is going viral. A pregnant woman in France suffered a rupture in her uterus which allowed part of the amniotic sac to ...