Mother’s Day means more after KC mom’s near-fatal postpartum heart attack

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – For Layne Strookman, this Mother’s Day is about being alive to hold her children.

The Kansas City mom nearly died from a heart attack just weeks after giving birth last year.

Strookman was six weeks postpartum when she decided to take all three of her kids out of the house by herself for the first time. She was dropping her two older children off at school when everything changed…

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