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Article: Woman says fertility clinic mixed up embryos: ; Couple plans to give baby to birth parents
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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TOLEDO, Ohio - Carolyn Savage didn't know what to think, what to
say, where to look as the ultrasound wand glided over her belly. It
was supposed to be her baby inside. Not someone else's.
Yet here she was in her doctor's office with the baby's
biological mother, both brought together by a terrible error at a
fertility clinic. A doctor, they said, had given Savage the wrong
embryo, and now she was carrying the other woman's child.
"The wand is on my abdomen and the technician's talking to
someone else: 'There's your baby's nose. There's your baby's head,'"
she said. "It was surreal."
Embryo mix-ups at fertility clinics are extremely rare. In those
few instances, they've degenerated into ...