There is a viral video of a veiled childbirth that is circulating these days on the networks and WhatsApp groups that is really impressive and rare, but contrary to what is said, it has nothing to do with Covid-19 .
It has been mentioned that it is a baby born by caesarean section inside the amniotic sac , an extremely rare case that occurs in approximately one in every 80,000 births. So far, so good. But it has also been said that his mother is Covid positive and that she was born this way to protect the baby from infection, which is totally false and incorrect .
Veiled delivery or blanket baby
The video shows the cesarean delivery of a baby who was born inside the intact amniotic sac, just as it is inside the mother’s uterus during pregnancy, so much so that the baby does not know that it has come into the world even though it is no longer inside the womb. from his mother. We can see him stick his tongue out testing the amniotic fluid as he does during pregnancy.
These types of deliveries are known as veiled or blanket deliveries , and can occur both in vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections, while babies born in this way are known as blanket babies , with a cloak, veil or shawl , because of the cloak or veil that covers them at birth.
Typically, the amniotic sac ruptures before or during delivery, before the baby’s head appears, but in rare cases, the baby can be born with the sac intact.
Is it dangerous for the baby? While still attached to the umbilical cord, the baby continues to receive the flow of oxygen through it, as it has been doing throughout the pregnancy. Once the bag is torn and the cord is cut, the baby begins to breathe on its own. From what is seen here, it would appear that the cord had been pinched, so you should not wait too long for the baby to begin breathing on its own.
It is not to avoid Covid infection
This video has been related to the birth of the first girl of a pregnant woman with Covid-positive at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, in Costa Rica, but it is not the delivery that we see in the video. It does not correspond to this case. Being born with an intact bag has nothing to do with protecting the baby from coronavirus infection .
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The amniotic sac does not protect against perinatal infections from mother to baby, since these occur through the placenta (maternal-placental) and the umbilical cord that connects it to the baby.
For its part, there is no scientific evidence so far that the Covid infection crosses the placental barrier and infects the baby, nor that it is transmitted through amniotic fluid.
According to the data that have been known, this is unlikely, although it could be transmitted once born through the respiratory droplets that the mother or any infected person expels. In any case, if infected, the symptoms of coronavirus in newborns are usually mild.
That is, the video is very impressive, but neither the mother of this baby had Covid, nor was she born that way to protect it from a possible infection. It was simply something fortuitous.
