
THURSDAY, May 25, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Alexis Simon, a special education teacher in the greater Pittsburgh area, was having a routine morning at school, sending an e-mail at her desk. The next thing she knew, she woke up at a hospital, disoriented and panicked."Is my baby OK?" Simon, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, asked the doctors.The baby boy, Dominic, indeed was born healthy, three days after his mother's cardiac arrest in December.Simon has no underlying heart disease or other health problems, and various tests at the hospital came back normal. Doctors were baffled as to why she suddenly slumped over in her chair at Trafford Middle School."It was like someone just turned my switch off," said Simon, 29.When Simon became unconscious – thankfully, no kids were...