{"id":257074,"date":"2021-11-11T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=257074"},"modified":"2021-11-10T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:31:05","slug":"california-couple-sues-birth-baby-ivf-mixup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-couple-sues-birth-baby-ivf-mixup\/","title":{"rendered":"California couple sues after giving birth to another couple’s baby in IVF mixup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A California couple has filed a lawsuit, and another couple is preparing to sue, after their embryos were swapped in an IVF mixup, causing each couple to give birth to the other’s child.<\/p>\n

According to People<\/a>, after giving birth to her second daughter, Daphna Cardinale and her husband Alexander suspected that the baby wasn’t genetically related to them because she has a darker complexion than they do. However, they buried those concerns because they loved the baby girl and trusted the doctors who had handled their IVF process.<\/p>\n

“It was a little jarring, but I shook it off and cut the umbilical cord,” said Alexander.<\/p>\n

“If we hadn’t done IVF, I would’ve just chalked it up to genetics,” he added. “She just looks how she looks. No big deal. But because we’d done IVF, my brain started going to the dark place.”<\/p>\n

Daphna felt the same. “She looked really different than us,” she said. “But she felt so familiar to me because I carried her and I birthed her.” She said the baby “just really folded into our lives and into our hearts.”<\/p>\n

Yet, a month later, an employee from the California Centre for Reproductive Health (CCRH) called and asked the couple for a photo of the baby, and the couple wondered what the clinic knew that they didn’t. A week later, Daphna bought a home DNA test kit, and weeks later, the results showed that the baby girl was not biologically their child.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0\u2018So sad and confusing\u2019: IVF\u2019s physical and psychological impact on children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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