Woman sues IVF clinic after she birthed another couple’s baby
A woman is suing a fertility clinic after the wrong embryo was implanted in her, resulting in a shocking discovery once the infant was born, a lawsuit says.
SAVANNAH, Georgia — A 38-year-old woman is suing the fertility clinic she used to conceive a child after the wrong embryo was implanted in her, resulting in a shocking discovery as soon as the infant was born, according to a lawsuit.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Georgia state court, alleges that Krystena Murray “unknowingly and unwillingly carried a child through pregnancy who was not biologically related to her,” something she learned only once she delivered the baby boy. Murray then had to give custody of the baby to his biological parents five months later, adding to her trauma, the suit says.
Murray, a wedding photographer who lives in Savannah, had decided to conceive and raise a child with the help of a sperm donor through Coastal Fertility Specialists, which operates in vitro fertilization clinics in South Carolina and Georgia.
The lawsuit says that Murray selected a sperm donor who resembled her: the donor was white with dirty blond hair and blue eyes. Coastal Fertility transferred an embryo to Murray in 2023, but when she gave birth in December of that year, Murray immediately “knew something was very wrong,” the lawsuit says, because the boy that she delivered was a “dark-skinned, African American baby.”
Krystena Murray says the baby boy she gave birth to is “the most beautiful human.”Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise“The birth of my child was supposed to be the happiest moment of my life, and honestly, it was. But it was also the scariest moment of my life,” Murray said Tuesday at a news conference, adding that she was instantly terrified that the baby would be taken from her. “All of the love and joy I felt seeing him for the first time was immediately replaced by fear. How could this have happened?”
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