OK, what is worse than an IVF clinic mixing up a couple’s last embryo? When the other couple who received it decide to abort it after finding out it wasn’t theirs! Argh, what nightmares and lawsuits are made of.The UK clinic which have admitted that their strict procedure had failed, have taken full blame and responsibility, despite initially telling a little white lie. Originally the couple were told that their last embryo had been destroyed in a lab accident. Hmm, they just happened to miss out the part where the “accident” included the embryo being implanted in another women’s body. Meanwhile back with the other couple, when the mix-up was discovered the woman chose to have the morning after pill to induce a termination. Evidently she was not technically pregnant because the embryo hadn’t reached the womb.
June 15, 2009...3:29 am
IVF Mix Up Nightmare
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June 15, 2009 at 3:36 am
I remember the last IVF boo boo. A clinic mixed up the sperm from two different couples. They fertilized the women’s eggs with the wrong men’s sperm. If I recall one couple was black while the other couple were white. The mix up was only discovered after the surprised white couple delivered a mix raced baby. No undoing that one either!
June 15, 2009 at 3:54 am
Oh spoil sports ! They should be like The Bold and The Beautiful. Taylor had Brook’s baby and no harm done. Hey, Brook’s doctor daughter used the wrong Mrs Forrester’s eggs. What the heck ? They all seem to be coping ok. Ho hum, what’s all the fuss about? The worst happens you may get a half cast baby and they can be quite cute. Better still, get one already made. Some people just make mountains out of mole hills.
June 15, 2009 at 4:27 am
LOL! Imagine the mix up couple… the child looks just like his father!
June 15, 2009 at 8:11 am
Another funny story Loon. I think I’ve already said that my husband is Polish and looks it too lol He as that flat head thing going.. Well sometimes when paternity is questioned at birth some people go to any length to prove who the father is. Well with mine it looked like someone had wrapped my husband up and put him in the crib. There would have been no way in hell anyone could have argued the point. I actually reeled back in horror as I just wasn’t expecting what I saw. I thought I’d have a cute pink cupie lipped baby girl but I had this 10 lb 1 ounce huge slavic looking kid. with a ton of hair that you could actually part in the middle. I’ll never forget the shock as long as I live. Now she’s beautiful but then……..
June 15, 2009 at 9:05 am
That just made me spill my coffee! I am guessing you weren’t flashing no baby photos around for awhile. Reminds me of the Seinfeld ugly baby episode.
I remember years ago a story circulating about a couple who were so excited about having a baby as it was conceived around the time of the wedding. Hubby is in the delivery room, doctors and nurses are all gathered around waiting for the little tyke to emerge. When the baby is finally born there is a deathly silence. The child is black, the couple are white! Hmm, seems during the Hen’s Night the woman got extremely drunk and went a little too far with the black male stripper. She had no memory of that night but a few of her friends did but didn’t say a word. Awkward.
June 15, 2009 at 10:10 am
By about five months I could actually take her out in public. No just joking. She just looked different to anything I ever dreamed of having.. She still gets all funny when we tease her about it. She says we gave her a complex and still to this day when she tries on hats it all floods back lol