Watch: incredibly rare moment a baby is born inside the amniotic sac

Warning: this video contains graphic footage

This is the incredibly rare moment a child is born while still inside its amniotic sac.

The phenomenon is estimated to occur in one in every 80,000 births and luckily the moment was caught on camera.

The video shows the baby lying on a hospital table inside the fully-intact clear sac which covers the whole body.

A doctor holds the baby on a table
A doctor holds the baby on a table Credit: Facebook / Gih Flor de Lis

Normally, the sac is broken during childbirth or a doctor pierces it with a scalpel during a caesarean.

The doctors and nurses crowded around the newborn to watch the once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The video has been viewed more than 6.8 million times in less than one day.

Earlier this year another baby was recorded on video being born inside its amniotic sac.

During that footage the doctor can be seen using a pair of surgical scissors to cut the baby out of the sack to take its first breaths.

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