A MUM-TO-BE begged "wake up, it's baby day" ahead of a planned C-section, only to find her husband had died. Rebecca Moss tried to give emergency first aid to Thomas Gibson before an ambulance arrived and he was pronounced dead, an inquest heard. 4 Rebecca Moss with her late partner Thomas Gibson Credit: PA 4 Mr Gibson, 40, died due to negligent medical care on the same day as the birth of their first child Credit: PA 4 Doctors had misread the 40-year-old's abnormal heart scan Credit: PA 4 Mrs Moss described her partner as 'caring, charming and funny' and said he was excited at becoming a father Credit: PA Doctors had misread the 40-year-old's abnormal heart scan.
Heartbroken Mrs Moss gave birth to their daughter, Harper, hours later in hospital, Stockport Coroner's Court was told. At the inquest into Mr Moss' death, a hospital doctor said he had misinterpreted an electrocardiogram (ECG) scan carried out 11 days earlier, when he had gone to A&E suffering from a severe stomach bug. Tearful Ms Moss, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, told the hearing she woke up at around 5.
15am on June 7 last year, the date of her elective Caesarean, and went downstairs. She said: "Tom was asleep on the couch. I was trying to cheer him up and was saying 'Wake up, it's baby day'.
"Tom didn't respond, so I went over to the couch to give him a kiss. He was lying in his usual sleeping position. "When I touched him, he was cold and stiff.
He wouldn't wake up. "I called 999 immediately. They asked .
