Editing Caul (section)

==Types==
{{see also|Childbirth}}
{{stack|[[File:Amniotic sac.jpg|thumb|The amniotic sac from an ''en caul'' birth.]]}}
A child 'born with the caul' has a portion of a birth membrane remaining on the head. There are two types of caul membranes,{{clarify|list the types|date=September 2022}} and such cauls can appear in four ways.{{clarify|list the ways|date=September 2022}}{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

The most common caul type is a piece of the thin translucent inner lining of the [[amnion]] that breaks away and forms tightly against the head during birth.<ref name="Earliest">{{cite journal |last1=Forbes |first1=Thomas R. |title=The Social History of the Caul |journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |issn=0044-0086 |date=June 1953 |volume=25 |issue=6 |pages=495–508 |pmid=13078640 |pmc=2599448}} [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599448/pdf/yjbm00328-0063.pdf Direct PDF link].</ref> Such a caul typically clings to the head and face but on rarer occasions drapes over the head and partly down the torso.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}