{"id":206046,"date":"2019-07-13T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=206046"},"modified":"2019-07-15T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:45:26","slug":"ivf-horror-couple-wrong-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-horror-couple-wrong-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF horror: Couples gives birth to wrong babies in shocking mix-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A couple from Queens, New York, tried for years to get pregnant. When they finally did, it was with someone else’s babies, thanks to a horrendous IVF mix-up, according to the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The couple, who is suing CHA Fertility Center in Los Angeles, turned to the facility — which calls itself the “mecca of reproductive medicine” — for help. In January 2018, they met with Dr. Joshua Berger, who runs the clinic, and co-owner Simon Hong. For months they tried just about everything to conceive, including medicine, vitamins, and procedures. They ended up creating eight embryos, and spent $100,000 on the process, including travel fees.<\/p>\n

In July 2018, the couple attempted to implant one of the embryos, but it didn’t work. A month later, the facility said they thawed two female embryos for a second attempt at implantation. That attempt worked.<\/p>\n

Court papers say the couple was “ecstatic to learn that after years of trying to conceive, they had success and were pregnant with twins.” But during a sonogram, it was revealed the babies were actually male, which led to confusion and questions. Berger and Hong, however, insisted that the sonographer must have been wrong and that the couple was having girls.<\/p>\n

READ: \u2018Consider a trade?\u2019: IVF mom tries to swap embryo daughter for a boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, on March 30, 2019, the couple welcomed twin boys via C-section… neither of whom was Asian, like the couple. Hong flew to New York to run genetic tests and those tests proved that the baby boys were not biologically related to the couple — or to each other<\/strong>. After nine months of pregnancy and years of trying to become pregnant, the couple had to give the baby boys to their biological parents. They don’t know what happened to their two daughters. They don’t even know if the embryos that are currently frozen are biologically theirs.<\/p>\n

The horrible error has caused the couple “permanent emotional injuries from which they will not recover.” And that should come as a surprise to no one; a mother spends nine months bonding with a child, feeling him or her move and kick, relishing the baby’s development, hearing the heart beat, counting down the days until they give birth and see their child’s precious face. Learning that the child you’ve bonded with for nine months and are overjoyed to meet is not only not<\/em> your child, but that you are given no choice<\/em> but to hand them over to someone else would be devastating to anyone.<\/p>\n