She gives birth to another’s daughter after IVF, an accused California clinic

An in vitro embryo exchange, a woman giving birth to the daughter of strangers. It happened in a Californian clinic where a couple, Daphna and Alexander Cardinale, had applied for assisted fertilization and who will now have to answer for it in court. The first suspicions came immediately after giving birth, in September 2019, when the new parents realized that the girl did not look like them at all. Two months after the decision to carry out the DNA test, which confirms the suspicions. Thus began the search for the couple who, in the same way, had fallen victim to the exchange of embryos and who had completed their daughter’s pregnancy. After several meetings, the two couples decide to proceed with the exchange of the girls, which took place legally and formally in January 2020 when the little ones are already four months old. A difficult situation for the couple’s seven-year-old daughter to understand. The Cardinals then decide to sue the California Center for Reproductive Health (Ccrh) in Los Angeles, which they had contacted in the summer of 2018, and the In VitroTech Labs embryology laboratory. The charge against them is of medical negligence, general negligence and fraudulent concealment. Neither the clinic nor the laboratory responded to requests for comment, explains the BBC. During a press conference, Daphna Cardinale said that she had been “robbed of the possibility of carrying my daughter” and that ” they cannot be you underestimate the pain and confusion of my family. ” Daphna added that “our memories of childbirth will always be tainted by the reality that our biological baby was given to someone else. And that I couldn’t keep the baby I gave birth to with me” and that “I nursed”. . Alexander Cardinale says he was expecting “a blond boy”, like their first child, but was surprised to see that the girl “was born with much darker skin”, reads the lawsuit, where it is explained that the father ” backed up against the wall, taking several steps back in the delivery room ” at the moment of birth. “The horror of this situation cannot be underestimated”, reads the complaint, underlining that the family involved tried to get help from a mental health center for “symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder”. The Cardinals’ attorney, Adam B. Wolf, told the BBC that the other family involved also plans to sue, but will remain anonymous.