ATLANTA — Jacob deGrom knew something was wrong when he was holding his newborn son and the infant stopped breathing and turned, in deGrom’s words, “dusky.”
Little Jaxon Anthony deGrom was suffering from infant sleep apnea soon after his birth on April 11. For first-time parents Jacob and Stacey deGrom, it was as scary as situation as one could imagine.
Fortunately for the Mets pitcher and his wife, Stacey’s sister, Amanda, is a respiratory therapist. It was Amanda who first noticed the symptoms when she was holding the baby.
“She actually noticed that he was changing a little bit of color,” deGrom said.