NEWS --My wife died of a broken heart': Mother, 29, died from cardiac arrest just five hours after daughter was stillborn

• Lindsay Clift, 29, died five hours after her daughter was delivered stillborn
• Inquest heard she died of a rare condition called amniotic fluid embolism
  
• Caused fluid from the baby to travel to her lungs and trigger a heart attackA mother who 'died from a broken heart' after learning her baby was stillborn had suffered a cardiac arrest, an inquest heard.
  Lindsay Clift, 29, died five hours after her daughter was delivered on September 26 last year.
  Her husband Darren, 41, had rushed to her to the New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton when the baby still hadn't arrived 12 days after the due date.
  Doctors induced labour but discovered the couple's first child Katy May had died in the womb and Mrs Clift was forced to give birth to her stillborn.
  He told the inquest: 'Sometimes material comes off the baby into the blood, including skin cells, and so on.
  'The only source could have been the amniotic fluid. We can say fairly surely that the finding in the lung suggests not only an embolism, but that it was also the cause of death.
  'This lady, for whatever reason developed an amniotic fluid embolism and unfortunately died from it.'
  
  Mrs Clift was brought to hospital to be induced 41 weeks and five days into her pregnancy.
  But a midwife raised the alarm after failing to find the baby's heartbeat.
  An ultrasound scan confirmed the tragic news of Katy May's death and Dr David Churchill, consultant obstetrician at the hospital, prepared an urgent induction procedure.
  
  
  
  

  The couple's daughter was 12 days overdue. When they induced Mrs Clift they discovered Katy May had died in the womb and Mrs Clift was forced to give birth to her stillborn
  

  An inquest heard that Mrs Clift died of an amniotic fluid embolism - a rare condition affecting one in 200,000 mothers in the UK - which triggered a fatal heart attack
  He told the inquest: 'I went to administer those but before the medication could be given to Mrs Clift, she actually said that she wished to vomit.
  'She got up off the bed and went to the toilet where she did vomit.
  'A midwife went with her and it was at that point that she collapsed. She was having difficulty oxygenating her own blood. She was blue, she was gasping for breath.
  'After an initial period where her body was quite rigid almost as if she was having a seizure, she became quite limp.
  'It was clear that she had had a cardiac arrest at that particular point.'
  
  Dr Churchill rang an emergency buzzer for help and a team including a consultant anaesthetist, the anaesthetic registrar and senior midwifery staff helped to return Mrs Clift to her bed.
  
  

  Speaking after his wife's death last year, Mr Clift described her as 'beautiful, stunning and warm' and said she died of a 'broken heart'
  
  
  

  Mrs Clift died at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton on September 26 last year after staff battled to save her
  The medical team followed advanced life support system processes for more than an hour, during which the baby was delivered by Caesarean section, but Mrs Clift's heart finally failed for the last time.
  Black Country coroner Robin Balmain agreed with the pathologist that an 'extraordinarily rare' amniotic fluid embolism had caused Mrs Clift's death, which he ruled was due to natural causes.
  He said: 'This is a tragedy for everybody. Mrs Clift would no doubt have been anticipating a very exciting time. It was going to be her first child.
  
  'Unfortunately the baby was dead prior to delivery, and indeed prior to the Caesarean section being carried out Mrs Clift collapsed in circumstances that were impossible to tell what was going on.
  
  

  Mr Clift praised the hospital, saying staff had done everything they could
  Speaking after his new wife's death last year, Mr Clift described her as 'beautiful, stunning and warm' and said she died of a 'broken heart'.
  He said: 'There was no reason to think anything was going to go wrong that day. She walked in there fit and healthy.
  'She seemed to just pass out. To my mind, once Katy May had gone it was almost as if Lindsay wanted to go as well, to look after the baby. She wanted a baby so much.
  'In my view she was so heartbroken that she wanted to be with the baby. This was a longed-for baby, it was mine and Lindsay's first.
  'For them to not find an instant cause of death, it sort of strengthens my feeling, even if it's medically nonsense, that she made the decision to go - I was there, I saw the fight go out of her.
  'We went in there hand in hand to become a three and very quickly found that Katy May had passed away, and then Lindsay.
  'I still can't believe how we got to this. The hospital were brilliant, they did everything they could.
  'It probably sounds cheesy given recent events but I called her my angel for the last few months.
  'She touched so many people, she was just lovely, so many people have got in touch to pay tribute to her since she passed away and that's some comfort.
  'Lindsay was just a warm and easy person to be with. There was never a bad patch. We just wanted the same things in life.'
  

  Lindsay Clift (pictured with husband Darren) died five hours after her daughter Katy May was stillborn last September
  

  The couple had wanted to start a family since they met seven years ago. They discovered they were expecting their first child after marrying in May 2011
  She died five hours later and at the time, Mr Clift blamed it on a 'broken heart'. 
  Yesterday an inquest heard that Mrs Clift, a mobile hairdresser, died of an amniotic fluid embolism - a rare condition affecting one in 200,000 mothers in the UK - which triggered a fatal heart attack.
  Pathologist Dr Adrian Yoong said he had found skin cells and a small fragment of hair in several small blood vessels in her lungs.