IVF Mixup Case

[Anonymous]

I'm sure everyone has read about this- but this is basically beyond my worst nightmare:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ivf-embryo-mix-up-parenthood/593725/

[Anonymous]

I read the article. The oldest one looks just like the dad.

[Anonymous]

What a nightmare for everyone involved. I’m pregnant with my first IVF baby and I am not sure what I would do if this happened to me. I feel bad for the bio mom who didn’t get to carry her child, but somehow feel even worse for the women who carried two babies who she had to give up.

[Anonymous]

This is awful. That poor couple from New York. They better be financially compensated - and the number better be 7 figs.

[Anonymous]

How terrible for all of them! Especially the couple who had all the hope, expectation, expense, and medical load of pregnancy and yet ended up without any kids. I really, really hope they were at least compensated!

[Anonymous]

I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

It’s tragic on all sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

Well no, they were someone else's biological kids. I do believe the legal outcome was correct.

[Anonymous]

Made worse by the fact that she was carrying TWO DIFFERENT couples Kids. So many errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

If she had raised the children to toddlerhood I see your point. But the fact that she carried the babies and had them for maybe 2-3 weeks is devastating, tragic, terrible...but does not mean she should be given custody. She is not their mother, sadly.

I hope she and her husband were given so much money that they can go adopt 600 babies if they so choose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a nightmare for everyone involved. I’m pregnant with my first IVF baby and I am not sure what I would do if this happened to me. I feel bad for the bio mom who didn’t get to carry her child, but somehow feel even worse for the women who carried two babies who she had to give up.

This. I also thought that Anni’s embryo might only have developed because of the stranger’s womb —after all, the embryo transfer to her failed.

[Anonymous]

The clinic needs to be shut down. How can anyone be confident anymore that they are receiving the right embryo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

If she had raised the children to toddlerhood I see your point. But the fact that she carried the babies and had them for maybe 2-3 weeks is devastating, tragic, terrible...but does not mean she should be given custody. She is not their mother, sadly.

I hope she and her husband were given so much money that they can go adopt 600 babies if they so choose.

She gave birth, she is their mother. We adopted, its very very difficult to adopt beyond the cost. She carried those kids in her body. They are hers in less she chooses not to parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get how she can be forced to give up kids she gave birth to. That makes no sense. Only in NY. They were her kids. The mix up was not her fault.

Well no, they were someone else's biological kids. I do believe the legal outcome was correct.

She gave birth. She did not have a surrogate agreement. No different than using donor sperm or eggs.

[Anonymous]

What a nightmare