joia crear perry. 2018, tennis star serena reddits and her husband, co-founder alexis ohanian, welcomed into the world their daughter alexis olympia ohanian, jr. the baby was born by an emergency c-section. williams told "vogue" magazine how she self-diagnosed a life-threatening emergency after giving birth. shortly after delivering, the tennis star suddenly felt out of breath and assumed she was having a pulmonary embolism given her history of blood clots. i want to read from the 2018 piece in "vogue" by rob haskell that describes serena williams's birth experience -- "she walked out of the hospital room so her mother wouldn't worry and told the nearest nurse, between gasps, that she needed a ct scan with contrast and iv heparin right away. the nurse thought her pain medicine might be making her confused. but serena insisted, and soon enough a doctor was performing an ultrasound of her legs. 'i was like, a doppler? i told you, i need a ct scan and a heparin drip,' she remembers telling the team. the u