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