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A fundraising drive for an unborn baby whose mother is brain dead in a Victoria hospital has passed $120,000 as the family’s plight tugs at heart strings across Canada.

Dylan Benson hoped to raise $36,000 so he could care for his son on his own while grieving for his wife.

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“I just wanted to reach out and say thank you to each and every one of you that have read our story and to those who have donated,” Benson said in a blog post on Tuesday. “We are overwhelmed with the response from not only the community, but now the nation and beyond.”

Doctors are hoping Robyn Benson’s body can hold out until the end of this month to allow her baby boy — already named Iver Cohen Benson — to grow and give doctors an opportunity to perform a caesarean section.

Benson, who is also 32 and works in the IT sector, wrote on his blog that his wife would have wanted to fight for her child.

“Ugh. I don’t know what to do or think,” wrote Benson in late December, after his wife was declared brain dead. “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.”