"It was definitely like a clear film, where you could definitely make out his head and his hair"

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.

When Philips heard how rare her Baby’s birth was, she was flabbergasted. “I was like, oh my gosh, Silas, you’re a little special baby,” she told KCAL.

It’s particularly surprising in a C-section, because the scalpel usually pierces the amniotic sac.