IVF baby mix-up - yikes..

sporina

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1109/1258727-us-ivf/

My gosh - the poor couples.. how would one ever get over that..

Sleepy

Hallmark Movie to be released in 12 months starring Katherine Heigl...

unkel

I think the outcome is as good as it gets under the circumstances. The babies are too young to notice the swap, the couples will try stay in touch, great story to tell when they are all older. Imagine if they hadn't found out until the kids were 3 or 4 or even older!

There will probably be a nice financial sweetener in it as well (US sue culture)

the mother used to say they gave her the wrong baby in the hospital...

.. maybe she was right

seamus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140701#Comment_118140701

It's a hard one. I joked about it when one of our kids was about 6 months old that maybe they had swapped it in the hospital, and my wife dead seriously said, " I wouldn't care, I'm not swapping back". The maternal bond surpasses all notions of genetics.

I'm guessing in this case perhaps "they noticed the baby girl had jet-black hair and a much darker complexion than anyone in their family." basically means the child was clearly mixed-raced or black. The couple themselves have dark hair, so black hair shouldn't set off alarm bells unless it's very typical African or Asian jet-black.

So if she felt from day one that it wasn't her child, then she probably struggled to bond well with it, making it somewhat easier to swap back when the time came.

Ubbquittious

Babies all look the same anyway. Horse on ta fcuk!

Shao Kahn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118141057#Comment_118141057

It's true, but you're not supposed to say it out loud! 😂

sporina

i've a brother who is an absolute nightmare... sooo different from my other 3 bros... I only said at the weekend "its hard to believe that him and "John (oldest Bro - f{false name}) have the same genes"..

maybe Mum actually was given the wrong baby..

never really thought about it till now.. 🤔

miamee

Apart from the obvious there is something very weird about that - two separate labs mixed up the embryos where the only connection was one doctor. Why were they moving embryos around at all?? Or, if I am reading between the lines correctly, why was this doctor moving embryos around from one clinic to another? Very shady.

Quantum Erasure

i wonder were the two babies the same age, or how long would embryos be stored before they are used?

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118143365#Comment_118143365

That is a great question, I hadn't even thought of that angle. If more than one enbryo result from an IVF cycle some of them are frozen for future use so you are correct that they might not have been similar ages. OMG imagine finding out the newborn baby you had wasn't yours and your own child was much older (for example) 😮

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140701#Comment_118140701

And with IVF success rates, there was no guarantee that both women would actually have a successful pregnancy to begin with. Could have been one child and nothing to swap with.

sporina

major sympathy for all involved anyway.. it would mess my head up if it wer me.

I've a six month old baby girl born from IVF. I can not even fathom how traumatic finding out the baby wasn't yours would be.

Horrible story.

OneEightSeven

It could be worse, they could mixed-up the sperm. Instead of trading babies, the women would have to trade husbands.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118141567#Comment_118141567

There might be another possible reason for that conundrum .............😛

sporina

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118144715#Comment_118144715

lol doubt that..

nah - i think he's just a bad egg

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118143365#Comment_118143365

I think I heard on the news that they were born a week apart, so they were lucky that way.

JimmyVik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140751#Comment_118140751

My granny handed over a 1 day old uncle of mine with red hair to be bathed and they handed her back a new uncle with black hair.

They then had to go swap all the babies around until she at least had one with red hair. There were multiple red heads, so we will never know. It bothers him since he found out. My mum suggested he get a DNA test, but he wont because he thinks its better not knowing than finding out he was swapped at birth :)

Id say he is a changling :) Hes totally different to the rest of them.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145427#Comment_118145427

Obviously a fake story. After being faced with the ignominy of a having to rear a ginger child she was given a swap with a normal child and you expect us to believe she didn't immediately take her chance and leg it before they realised their mistake?

Not plausible

JimmyVik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145625#Comment_118145625

:)

All my uncles, aunts and cousins are red heads. All of us have suffered the curse. Hes more carrot head than red head though :) Definitely an outlier.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145625#Comment_118145625

also ginger baby getting a bath? none of this adds up

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118145866#Comment_118145866

Well "bath" could have been code for a bucket around the snout of the local water pump:

'Sure, isn't it better for them now?' Dan said.

Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced

Them out on the dunghill

Riddle101

Feels like something out of an American sitcom where it's revealed that a whacky friend of one of the parents caused an accident and switched the embryos messing everything up. The audience of course would have been in on the mess up, but it's not revealed to the parents until the season finale that the babies were switched, thus show season ends on a cliffhanger.

Jequ0n

Would be interesting to know how long both sets of parents held on to their changelings until they swapped them back.

So nice to have another sob story in the news, just heart breaking.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147644#Comment_118147644

Maybe the news should just consist of journalists chatting to people to whom nothing unusual happened that day 😉

SouthWesterly

Tragic story but hearing her saying one of the reasons she was suing was because of other people's trauma. They I remembered it was America🙄

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148342#Comment_118148342

This is about two sets of parents and their “artificial” offspring. How much more irrelevant and mundane does it get?

Oh you probably have some thrilling anecdotes to make this about yourself.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148364#Comment_118148364

Do you not understand the concept of how news works? It's an unusual story. No need to get so triggered by it if you don't find it interesting yourself

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148480#Comment_118148480

I actually can’t be bothered with your desperate attempts to elicit attention. Good luck though.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148547#Comment_118148547

I find the story newsworthy. I would propose that someone commenting on a story which they have no interest in would be more indicative of someone trying to "elicit attention"