The patient was admitted to the Boston Lying-in Hospital to await delivery. To avoid any possible trauma to the transplanted kidney as the vertex engaged, it was decided to deliver the patient by cesarean section. This was performed under spinal anesthesia on March 10, 1958, a time arbitrarily regarded as the 41st week of gestation. A normal male infant weighing approximately 3300 grams was delivered.1
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