The mother of a toddler who was pronounced dead at an Arizona hospital in February, then found to be alive hours later in a morgue, is speaking out about her family’s ordeal and raising questions about the care her son received that night.

The mother, Alexus Fiordilino, said in an interview this week that she, her husband and her mother-in-law were at the hospital saying their final goodbyes to her son, Vincent, who was 18 months old at the time, when they thought that maybe “he was trying to breathe.” He had been found unresponsive in a backyard swimming pool hours earlier.

“As I was hugging him,” she said, “air came out of him.”

When they told a police officer and a member of the hospital’s medical staff that Vincent appeared to be exhaling, they were told that it was “agonal breathing,” or “the final death breath,” Fiordilino said.

“That’s what they confirmed with us over and over,” she added, referring to the medical staff at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb…