Dylan Benson's fight to save his unborn son
Robyn Benson suffered a brain haemorrhage at the end of December, when she was 22 weeks pregnant with husband Dylan's son.
32-year-old Robyn was declared brain dead after being admitted to hospital suffering from vomiting and a severe headache, according to Dylan Benson's blog.
Dylan, who lives in Victoria, Canada, has already named the couple's baby boy, Iver Cohen Benson, and hopes his wife's body can hold out until the end of February to allow doctors to perform a caesarean section.
Then, as family friend Rod Philips said, "We'll all say goodbye to Robyn".
Dylan, 32, described his wife as "his rock" as he prepares to be a single father, posting his daily grief on his blog.
Here is a short excerpt from his blog:
The day after my life changed.
December 29th
My wife is dying. We are both 32, she is 22 weeks pregnant. Yesterday morning she was complaining of a headache and asked me to go to the store to get some Tylenol for her and when I came back she was unconscious on the bathroom floor.
They performed a surgery on my wife’s brain to drain some of the excess blood from her brain and now they are going to try and keep her body alive for four more weeks; The thought process behind this is that if they can keep her body alive and growing our child until she is 26 weeks pregnant it will give our unborn son a 60 to 80% chance of surviving a C-section that time.
Ugh. I don’t know what to do or think. She is my rock. She does everything for us and I can’t believe I won’t get to talk to her again and now if this works, our son will grow up never meeting his wonderful mother.
Benson has since posted an update to his blog, saying baby Iver "is still growing in the womb and amazingly things are still remaining healthy as far as my wife’s body goes".
You can read Dylan Benson's full blog here, at misterbenson.com
