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A police officer who collapsed in a hospital toilet while in labour with twins died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled.A police officer who collapsed in a hospital toilet while in labour with twins died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled.
Pc Sarah Underhill, 37, died on 5 October last year at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after amniotic fluid from the womb entered her blood stream.Pc Sarah Underhill, 37, died on 5 October last year at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after amniotic fluid from the womb entered her blood stream.
Pathologist Sebastian Lucas said her condition was "unpreventable".Pathologist Sebastian Lucas said her condition was "unpreventable".
Mrs Underhill's husband Richard had said that doctors should have performed a Caesarean section sooner.Mrs Underhill's husband Richard had said that doctors should have performed a Caesarean section sooner.
In summing up the case, Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Gardiner said: "The twins were successfully delivered but sadly [Mrs Underhill] went into a cardiac arrest from which she could not be retrieved."
In a statement, Mrs Underhill's husband Richard thanked the coroner as well as staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
He described his wife as "a devoted daughter, caring sister and beautiful wife.
"It is truly heartbreaking that she will not go on to become the wonderful mother she would have been," he said. "She will be sadly missed."
Mr Underhill, 39, now cares for six-month-old twins Hannah and James at their home in Didcot, Oxfordshire.