Woman sues IVF clinic after having other couple’s baby

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Woman sues IVF clinic after having other couple’s baby

Krystena Murray became pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilisation in 2023, and said she was unaware until she gave birth that the fertility clinic had made a fateful mistake.

In December 2023, Murray delivered a healthy baby boy. But she also knew immediately it didn’t develop from one of her own lab-fertilised eggs.

The baby was ******, while Murray and her ****** donor are both white. She says she later learned doctors had transferred another patient’s embryo instead of her own.

Regardless, Murray resolved to raise the child. But after reporting the mix-up to the fertility clinic, she says, its staff tracked down and notified the baby’s biological parents.

They demanded custody, Murray said, and she gave up the five-month-old boy to avoid a legal fight she couldn’t win.

Murray, 38, of Savannah in the US state of Georgia, filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday against Coastal Fertility Specialists, alleging the clinic’s negligence in mixing up her embryos with the other couple’s caused her ongoing pain and anguish.

“I have never felt so violated and the situation has left me emotionally and physically broken,” Murray told reporters during a virtual news conference.

“I spent my entire life wanting to be a mom. I loved, nurtured and grew my child and I would have done literally anything to keep him.”

Coastal Fertility Specialists apologised in an emailed statement for what it called “an unprecedented error that resulted in an embryo transfer mix-up”.

It said the staff has adopted new safeguards to prevent similar mistakes from happening in the future.

“This was an isolated event with no further patients affected,” the statement said. “We are doing everything we can to make things right for those affected by this incident.”

Murray’s lawsuit says the clinic’s “extreme and outrageous” mistake caused Murray to be “turned into an unwitting surrogate, against her will, for another couple”. She’s seeking unspecified monetary damages.

Her lawyer, Adam Wolf, said Murray still doesn’t know what happened to her own embryos. It’s still unclear how the mix-up occurred, he said.

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