Memorial fund set up for tragic Lindsay who died after losing her unborn child
A memorial fund has been set up in honour of a Black Country woman who collapsed and died just hours after she was told she had lost her unborn baby.
Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsay Clift, from Bilston, was killed by a rare complication in childbirth in September last year.
She died after going into Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital for a routine induction as she was two weeks past her due date.
However, when she arrived midwives were unable to find a heartbeat and confirmed the tragic news that her and husband Darren's baby, Katy May, was stillborn.
Shortly afterwards the hairdresser collapsed and died. An inquest held earlier this year found she had suffered an 'extraordinarily rare' amniotic fluid embolism.
Her husband, Darren Clift, aged 42, has now set up a fund in his wife's memory.
Donations have now topped the £4,500 mark, allowing the fund to buy a new piece of equipment that will help train staff at New Cross.
Mr Clift, of Himley Close in Bilston, said: "Lindsay was a very gentle and caring person and it's very fitting she has a fund in her name, although she would be telling me off for having such a fuss made."
The life-size obstetric simulator that the memorial fund has purchased means staff can train more effectively for situations such as the one they found themselves in when they tried to save Mrs Clift last year.
David Churchill, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the hospital, said: "Perhaps the most fitting memorial we can offer is our pledge as professionals that we won't give up trying to be better at what we do."
Mr Clift, a consultant at Wolverhampton Learning Technologies, said he kept in touch with people at the hospital and was aware of the massive impact his wife's death had on them. He added: "I'll remember the look on everyone's face for the rest of my life."
Donations can be made to the fund at www.justgiving.com/royalwolveshospitalsnhstrust/remember
