A MUM forged her husband’s signature to get pregnant via IVF after he told her he didn’t want another baby.
Brit Chris Dawson was stunned when his wife Eva told him she was four months pregnant despite him making clear he didn’t want more children as their marriage was hanging by a thread.
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The couple, who already had a son and daughter together, were living in Eva’s native Sweden when she dropped the bombshell.
Chris, not his real name, told Central Recorderday Times her deception ruined their ten-year marriage – as they divorced by the time their third baby was two years old.
He had been adamant he didn’t want another child due to the strain their relationship was already under.
“I thought, I’m in my forties, that’s enough. I’m happy with the son and daughter I already have,” he said.
“We probably had a conversation a couple of times where she said, ‘I think maybe we should have a third kid,’ and I said, ‘I think we have enough on our plates right now. We’re just trying to keep our relationship together.”
But Eva later revealed she was four months pregnant, leaving Chris open-mouthed as he knew she could not get pregnant naturally, with their son and daughter both conceived through IVF using donor eggs and Chris’ sperm.
The pair had travelled to Finland for treatment for both pregnancies, where they had several embryos remaining.
Eva told baffled Chris she had again got pregnant at the clinic.
“I said, ‘How did you do that? I never agreed to anything like this!’ ” he said.
“Then I slowly started to work back through things.”
Four months prior, Eva had told Chris she was going away on a business trip – but had actually gone to Finland.
“She forged my signature. She would have planned this very carefully,” he said.
Her deception left Chris furious as he said she had “absolutely no right to make that decision on her own”.
Chris painfully mulled over whether to leave his wife – but didn’t want his child to be born to a divorced couple.
“I thought, if I would leave, then this child would always know that their mum and dad divorced when they were born,” he said.
“They would think it was their fault.”
‘IMPOSSIBLE POSITION’
Chris said he was put in an “impossible position and felt compelled to stay as Eva went on to give birth to a baby boy.
But their relationship quickly deteriorated and by the time their son was two, they had split up.
It comes after a German man was forced to fork out child support in 2018 for a baby born after his wife also forged his signature on papers.
And in 2017, a dad lost his battle for damages against a top London IVF clinic after the High Court heard his ex had tricked doctors into impregnating her with his frozen sperm.
The court heard that the clinic had been fooled by a forged signature in October 2010, five months after the couple’s “volatile” relationship “irretrievably broke down”.
The pair already had a son, conceived through IVF, and more of their eggs and sperm were being stored at the west London clinic run by IVF Hammersmith Limited of Harley Street.
He sued the clinic for breach of contract – but the judge said while he had been “morally vindicated”, he explained that the law views parenthood as a “benefit” and that it is “morally unacceptable” to regard children as a “financial liability”.