After giving birth to triplets, an apparently healthy Isabel Mason joked with hospital staff about having to buy a bigger car to fit them all in.
Mrs Mason, who had undergone IVF treatment, had enjoyed just over a week with
her babies before what a coroner called the “tragedy” that took her from her
new family.
The triplets, Mattias, Lukas and Sarah, were born on March 2 last year.
Their mother, known as Izzy, was declared dead at the Royal Hampshire County
Hospital in Winchester, Hants., eight days later, after falling ill.
An inquest into her death heard she had suffered an underlying structural
weakness in the tissue close to her heart and that doctors were unable to
save her life.
Her devastated husband Paul, 45, was left to raise the triplets, whom he said resembled his German-born late wife in both their facial expressions and personality traits.
On the night of her death, Mr Mason had been visiting her and the babies in hospital.
After seeing his children he returned to a separate part of the hospital to see Mrs Mason, ringing a bell to be allowed access to the ward.
"I waited until someone came and let me in and ushered me into the room where Isabel was," he said, adding he "didn't even recognise" his wife on the bed.
When staff realised he was there they moved him off the ward.
He went on: "I was ushered outside the ward and saw all the doctors come whooshing past at 9.50pm.
"I texted Isabel to say 'I think there's some sort of emergency on the ward, I don't think I'm going to get in for a while.' I never heard back from her."
A post-mortem examination revealed Mrs Mason died due to blood leaking from an artery into the sac around her heart.
The inquest heard it was a rare event but that “multiple pregnancies inevitably increase the strain on someone”.
June Phillips, a staff midwife at the hospital, said she had befriended Mrs Mason just minutes before the young woman collapsed and died.
"She was telling us about the size of the buggy and that they would have to buy a larger car," Ms Phillips said.
Recording a verdict of death by natural causes, Central Hampshire coroner Grahame Short said: "Dissection of the aorta was a rare occurrence and couldn't reasonably have been identified after it happened or indeed beforehand.
"Once the dissection took place, even in a hospital environment, it's unlikely - in fact I would go so far as to say impossible - for death to have been prevented.”
Mr Mason, who along with his wife worked for Ordnance Survey in Southampton, Hants., said not a day had passed when he did not think of his wife.
"Isabel was overjoyed to be having a family and introducing the triplets to all the experiences we both loved,” he said in a statement.
"Sadly Isabel only had eight days with the triplets between their birth and her unexpected death.
"As the triplets have grown and their personalities have developed I regularly see so much of Isabel in them.
"From facial expressions to personality traits such as her characteristically determined happy-go-lucky mischievousness.
"Sadly she didn't have the opportunity to watch her children grow and introduce them to all the things she enjoyed from her cosmopolitan background.
"We feel extremely sad to lose Isabel; she has left a huge gap in all our lives.”
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Her devastated husband Paul, 45, was left to raise the triplets, whom he said resembled his German-born late wife in both their facial expressions and personality traits.
On the night of her death, Mr Mason had been visiting her and the babies in hospital.
After seeing his children he returned to a separate part of the hospital to see Mrs Mason, ringing a bell to be allowed access to the ward.
"I waited until someone came and let me in and ushered me into the room where Isabel was," he said, adding he "didn't even recognise" his wife on the bed.
When staff realised he was there they moved him off the ward.
He went on: "I was ushered outside the ward and saw all the doctors come whooshing past at 9.50pm.
"I texted Isabel to say 'I think there's some sort of emergency on the ward, I don't think I'm going to get in for a while.' I never heard back from her."
A post-mortem examination revealed Mrs Mason died due to blood leaking from an artery into the sac around her heart.
The inquest heard it was a rare event but that “multiple pregnancies inevitably increase the strain on someone”.
June Phillips, a staff midwife at the hospital, said she had befriended Mrs Mason just minutes before the young woman collapsed and died.
"She was telling us about the size of the buggy and that they would have to buy a larger car," Ms Phillips said.
Recording a verdict of death by natural causes, Central Hampshire coroner Grahame Short said: "Dissection of the aorta was a rare occurrence and couldn't reasonably have been identified after it happened or indeed beforehand.
"Once the dissection took place, even in a hospital environment, it's unlikely - in fact I would go so far as to say impossible - for death to have been prevented.”
Mr Mason, who along with his wife worked for Ordnance Survey in Southampton, Hants., said not a day had passed when he did not think of his wife.
"Isabel was overjoyed to be having a family and introducing the triplets to all the experiences we both loved,” he said in a statement.
"Sadly Isabel only had eight days with the triplets between their birth and her unexpected death.
"As the triplets have grown and their personalities have developed I regularly see so much of Isabel in them.
"From facial expressions to personality traits such as her characteristically determined happy-go-lucky mischievousness.
"Sadly she didn't have the opportunity to watch her children grow and introduce them to all the things she enjoyed from her cosmopolitan background.
"We feel extremely sad to lose Isabel; she has left a huge gap in all our lives.”
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