Abstract

COMMITTEE ON MATERNAL WELFAREMassive Aspiration of Amniotic ContentsThe label of "prediabetic status" had been assigned to a forty-two-year-old multigravida whose previous babies had weighed 4763 gm. (10 pounds, 8 ounces), 5075 gm. (11 pounds, 3 ounces) and 3714 gm. (8 pounds, 3 ounces) and had been delivered at forty-three, forty and forty weeks respectively, without complication.Seen prenatally from eleven weeks, the patient was treated for varicose veins, pruritus vulvae, axillary furunculosis and breast abscesses due to a nonhemolytic Staphylococcus albus. The abscesses required incision eight weeks before delivery, when they were still draining. The usual weight of . . .

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