LOGAN, Utah — A family gathered last week to celebrate the arrival of their newborn baby, not knowing that her arrival would help save her grandfather.

Baby Gia was born a little early, at just 37 weeks old, at Logan's Cache Valley Hospital on Sept. 3. She was healthy and right away, her family's whole world.

The next day, her grandparents came to visit their very first granddaughter at the hospital.

"It was just a normal morning," said Gia's mother, Aintzane Simpkins.

Simpkins' father got up because he was experiencing heartburn. That's when everything quickly changed.

"All of a sudden, he just falls to the ground," Simpkins said.

Within seconds, staff rushed to their hospital room, trying to revive him. Derek McLeod, a registered nurse at Cache Valley Hospital, said Gia's grandfath

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