Genetic testing post IVF

[Anonymous]

Has anyone else considered genetic testing of an IVF baby just to make sure they didn't mix anything up?

[Anonymous]

Not us. DD is the spitting image of her aunt, down to a birthmark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not us. DD is the spitting image of her aunt, down to a birthmark.

Is her Aunt the biological parent?

[Anonymous]

This is every IVF parents worst nightmare. I thought about this and decided I didn’t want to know the answer. What would I do, give my kids to someone else based on the results? My daughter is her father’s mini me, and maybe if you squint she shares some similarities with me.

In truth, there are very high standard protocols for ensuring mix ups don’t happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is every IVF parents worst nightmare. I thought about this and decided I didn’t want to know the answer. What would I do, give my kids to someone else based on the results? My daughter is her father’s mini me, and maybe if you squint she shares some similarities with me.

In truth, there are very high standard protocols for ensuring mix ups don’t happen.

I hate my RE and the clinic and have read a google review from someone claiming to be a surrogate claiming they did indeed give her the wrong embryo, but so far we agree with you

Chances are, the switch up would be one-way and the other family would have no baby because that's how the cookie crumbles with IVF on average, so you probably wouldn't be able to be family friends with the other family, it would just be sadness and lawsuits, other family trying to sue for visitation or custody. If you leave the newborn state before the mix up is discovered it is so much worse

If there are two switched babies, that could lead to awkwardness with disagreement on parenting styles, amount of visiting etc

I heard an account of a surrogate mom where the bio mom snatched the baby away the moment it was born and the bio mom basically ignored the surrogate. Obv the biomom was uncomfortable with assisted reproduction and just wanted to put it out of her mind

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not us. DD is the spitting image of her aunt, down to a birthmark.

Is her Aunt the biological parent?

[Anonymous]

If you have suspicions OP then you should but honestly not sure why you would even have this thought if you had gone through the stress of this whole process. Oh wait, you are probably a fear mongering troll who dislikes IVF.

[Anonymous]

Unless I had a reason to doubt, I would not. Once the baby is born, it's mine, regardless of its parentage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless I had a reason to doubt, I would not. Once the baby is born, it's mine, regardless of its parentage.

If it’s not your biological child due to the IVF clinic’s mixup the bio parents can sue and take the child back. It happened in a real case.

[Anonymous]

We had to do genetic testing post-IVF for medical reasons, and DS is most definitely ours. Despite there being a few instances of mix-ups happening that have been reported in the media, it is incredibly rare.

I would not do genetic testing purely to confirm biological parentage unless I had some very strong suspicions.

[Anonymous]

So a lot of the tests you get while pregnant will confirm it is yours genetically. It is the male sperm that would be an unknown mixup at birth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a lot of the tests you get while pregnant will confirm it is yours genetically. It is the male sperm that would be an unknown mixup at birth.

Like what?

I misinterpreted this thread when clicking on it and was wondering if you still do nipt and first trimester genetic screening for a pgt euploid embryo of it's redundant/unnecessary. Not for DNA matching for my spouse/ me

[Anonymous]

SGF told me to go ahead and do the NIPT. My OB provider said it wasn’t necessary bc PGT is a more accurate and more direct test. I went ahead and did it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a lot of the tests you get while pregnant will confirm it is yours genetically. It is the male sperm that would be an unknown mixup at birth.

Like what?

I misinterpreted this thread when clicking on it and was wondering if you still do nipt and first trimester genetic screening for a pgt euploid embryo of it's redundant/unnecessary. Not for DNA matching for my spouse/ me

My MFM made me do the NIPT because the nuchal cane back borderline high (96th percentile) and apparently she'd had a patient with a PGT tested embryo have trisomy 13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not us. DD is the spitting image of her aunt, down to a birthmark.

Is her Aunt the biological parent?

You do realize that there's no guarantee that your kid will look like you or your DH.