The Region - News from Nov. 18, 1986

Baby Moses, the youngest infant to receive a heart transplant, celebrated his first birthday by nibbling on pizza and riding toy horses and cars. He also received two rocking horses and a miniature, battery-operated all-terrain vehicle during his birthday party, which drew 30 relatives and friends to a Fontana restaurant. “Anything that moves, he loves,” said his mother, Maria Anguiano, adding that her baby will have to grow a little more before he can use the cycle. Baby Moses was born Nov. 16, 1985, with a fatal underdevelopment of his heart. He received a transplanted heart four days later at Loma Linda University Medical Center near San Bernardino. Baby Moses was the world’s third and youngest infant ever to undergo such surgery. Until his heart implant, only two such operations had been attempted before, in New York in 1967 and London in 1984. Both those babies died.