{"id":988810,"date":"2021-11-09T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=988810"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T14:28:53","slug":"couples-give-birth-to-each-others-babies-accuse-fertility-clinic-of-ivf-mixup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/couples-give-birth-to-each-others-babies-accuse-fertility-clinic-of-ivf-mixup\/","title":{"rendered":"Couples Give Birth to Each Other&#039;s Babies, Accuse Fertility Clinic of IVF Mixup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcouples-give-birth-to-each-others-babies-accuse-fertility-clinic-of-ivf-mixup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=988810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/hospital-nursery-babies-getty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LOS ANGELES, California \u2014 Two couples gave birth to each other\u2019s biological babies after a Los Angeles clinic, the&nbsp;California Center for Reproductive Health, allegedly implanted the wrong embryos in the respective mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Both babies are healthy, but the parents were allegedly traumatized: not only did they miss the early development of their own respective children, but they had to part from babies with which they had already bonded for the first few months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>One couple began to feel doubts, the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-11-08\/couple-gives-birth-to-wrong-baby-in-nightmare-ivf-mix-up\">reported<\/a> Monday, when their baby girl \u201cdidn\u2019t resemble either of her parents and looked to be of a different race.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p>That moment began a troubling, months-long ordeal in which the Cardinales ultimately learned their embryo had been switched with that of another couple during in vitro fertilization. The couples had given birth to \u2014 and were unknowingly raising \u2014 each other\u2019s babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe heartbreak and confusion cannot be understated,\u201d a teary Daphna Cardinale said during a news conference Monday \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until December 2019 that the two couples finally met. It was the first time either had seen their biological babies.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, they met nearly every day. In January 2020, the babies had their first overnight stays with their new families before both couples decided they would stay in their new homes \u2014 with their biological parents \u2014 for good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Accidental switches&nbsp;<em>after&nbsp;<\/em>birth are rare, but even such incidents are more common than switches&nbsp;<em>before&nbsp;<\/em>birth.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a Tennessee couple was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/national\/switched-at-birth-couple-says-hospital-accidentally-swapped-babies\/\">given<\/a> the wrong baby at a hospital; they were lucky to notice before they left.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, California \u2014 Two couples gave birth to each other\u2019s biological babies after a Los Angeles clinic, the\u00a0California Center for Reproductive Health, allegedly implanted the wrong embryos in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}