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Before birth a marked rise in the potassium/sodium concentration ratio of allantoic fluid coincided with a similar rise in the corticosteroid levels of fetal plasma. The prepartum corticosteroid increase started at 134-136 days gestational age whether delivery occurred at 141 or 151 days.