A mum has hailed her newborn son as a ‘miracle’ after he was born in en caul – in the car on the way to the hospital.
Raelin Scurry’s dash to the hospital, at just over 29 weeks pregnant, was as dramatic as it gets.
She took to Instagram to share the details, a fortnight after her son was born.
Raelin recalled how she began experiencing contractions on August 5, but mistook them for Braxton Hicks. After enduring 45 minutes of consistent contractions, she reckoned it was time to head to the hospital.
After dropping their daughter off at her godmother’s house, Raelin and her fiancé hopped in the car.
“Well, the contractions continued to get close together and more intense, and before I knew it, I knew it was time to push,” recalled Raelin.
“I called 911 because I was so scared. They couldn’t understand me between the screams and contractions.”
Raelin knew that she wouldn’t make it to the hospital, and so she chose to take action.
“I pulled my pants off and reached down. Sure enough, his head was right there. I pushed on time, and my miracle baby was here,” she gushed.
Raelin was in for another surprise, however – her baby boy was born en caul, still wrapped in his amniotic sac.
While she and her husband were advised by the emergency services to pull the car over, they were too worried about their little one to follow orders – so they kept going.
While it took them just seven minutes to get to the hospital, it was an agonising wait for the concerned Raelin.
“At first, the baby was still and all I could do was pray he would be OK,” she wrote.
“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 OK.”
Thankfully, they made it to the hospital just minutes later, and the staff took over.
Raelin’s little boy, who tipped the scales at 3lbs 1oz, is now ‘doing wonderful’.
“I know he’s going to be an awesome little man. He is truly a miracle baby. We are so blessed to be his parents,” added the proud mum.
Raelin’s story has gone viral online, not least due to the incredible photo she posted of her tiny tot. Amid their panic, the couple managed to get a shot of their baby sitting in his mum’s lap, in the car, still inside his amniotic sac. Wow.
We are so relieved to hear that there was a happy ending to this story.
