- A woman pursues a fertility clinic after the doctors transferred the embryo of another couple to their uterus.
- A DNA test proved that the baby belonged to another couple using the clinic services.
- The woman raised and linked to the baby for months and then lost their custody.
Krystena Murray knew that something was wrong when she saw her baby for the first time.
Murray is a white woman who has chosen to have a white sperm donor for her IVF procedure. She gave birth to a little boy at the end of December 2023. Her baby was black.
After having passed a DNA test and handed her hand to her fertility clinic, she learned that the embryo of another couple had been transferred to her uterus.
While she fell in love with her newborn baby and bound herself with him, he was not genetically. In five months, she lost custody of the child to her legal parents – another couple at the clinic.
“It destroyed me,” said Murray, who pursues coastal fertility specialists in Savannah, Georgia, in a press release. “Nothing can express the shock and violation by learning that your doctor has put an embryo from a stranger in your body.”
She described herself as “hearts” and “emotionally broken” after having had to abandon a child who, until his birth, she believed to be hers, and she has become attached since.
5 months of connection
When Murray delivered the little boy, she felt in conflict. She had transported him to the long term and had led it through work. As she cuddled him and went into alteration, she felt a deep feeling of affair. On the other, she had questions about their unexplained racial difference and did not know what to do.
She has not published photos on social networks or let her loved ones meet her child because she knew they would also have questions, said Murray through her lawyers. Whenever the doorbell sounded, she feared that someone came to remove her child, they said.
One month after childbirth, she obtained the results of a DNA test she asked for. This confirmed what she feared: she was not linked to the baby.
The clinic mixed embryos
At the beginning of 2023, Murray began to take prescribed drugs to stimulate egg production. Throughout the process, she went to Savannah of coastal fertility almost every day for blood and follow-up meetings.
The clinic managed to recover several of Murray’s eggs to create embryos with the sperm of his donor – a white man who, like her, had blue eyes and dirty blond hair.
In May 2023, coastal fertility specialists transferred an embryo to the Murray uterus. She later learned that it belonged to another couple registered in the clinic.
Biological parents continued Murray for the guard
In March 2024, the clinic realized that the bad embryo had been transferred. Coastal fertility specialists contacted the genetic parents of Murray’s baby, who continued Murray for guard. Murray hired legal aid in several states to fight against the trial.
Another DNA test confirmed that the couple was linked to the baby. Murray’s legal team advised her to give up custody, knowing that she would lose the family business. She abandoned the baby in May 2024 and has not seen it since.
In a press release, Adam Wolf, associated with Peiffer Wolf and representing Murray in his trial against coastal fertility specialists, said the clinic had made a “very serious error”.
“The consequences are that change life,” he said. “It should never happen in a fertility clinic.”
Murray said the emotional consequences had been difficult for her. “To transport a baby, fall in love with him, deliver him and build the unique special link between the mother and the baby, everything to have him removed,” she said. “I will never get over it completely.”
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