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News & Current Events Apr 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM

Biological parents of baby in IVF embryo mix-up have been identified, Florida couple says

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Biological parents of baby in IVF embryo mix-up have been identified, Florida couple says
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Biological parents of baby in IVF embryo mix-up have been identified, Florida couple says
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills sued the Fertility Center of Orlando after the birth of a baby who isn’t genetically related to either of them.
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BlueCarPinkJacket Apr 23, 2026 +2214
So the clinic is closing and a new one is going up in the same spot. Reading between the lines here, are they going to try and claim bankruptcy to get out of paying this poor couple? Because this couple deserves all the money and another baby on the house.
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FreeChickenDinner Apr 23, 2026 +1899
A White couple had a 100% South Asian baby through IVF due to an embryo mixup. There is no evidence that another couple received their fertilized embryo. The clinic doesn’t know what happened to it.
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Theletterkay Apr 23, 2026 +1760
Thats not really the point of this search. They werent searching for their baby. They have been through the fertility problems and know the stress and heartache of not being able to concieve. They know the amount of time and energy and money spent on harvesting the eggs and sperm to make that baby. There are were parents out there who desperately wanted a baby and paid all that time and money and that baby was wrongly implanted. To them, it feels like accidental kidnapping. They ended up going home with a baby they knew had parents somewhere who would do anything to have her back.
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mayhemandqueso Apr 23, 2026 +386
I guess it’s good they don’t have their genetic kid living with another family to find. But so curious how that talk went with the baby’s biological family. Were they like ya sure we got one too so you can have that one? Lol.
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Kaetra Apr 23, 2026 +530
If the bio parents come forward saying they want the child, what will the couple do? I hope everyone's primary focus is doing what is best for the baby and not what the bio and gestational parents want. I'd hate to see another case like baby Richard's. Heart-wrenching.
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the_beer-baron Apr 23, 2026 +92
It happens and can result in custody battles in favor of the biological parents. Just devastating to birth and raise a child for years only to have them taken away because of someone else’s error. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/magazine/ivf-clinic-mixup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.f6Hs.ivgtAiKGBeSy&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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sumthingsumthingblah Apr 23, 2026 +54
It’s a wildly under-regulated “industry”.
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Theletterkay Apr 23, 2026 +49
The parents the baby was born to said they love her and are happy to keep her. But the bio parents paid thousands of dollars and lots of blood sweat and tears to get those eggs fertilized and implanted. Its basically accidental kidnapping that the baby was implanted in the wrong parent.
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MRS_RIDETHEWORM Apr 23, 2026 +35
Similarly, this other couple carried and birthed the child
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vespene_jazz Apr 23, 2026 +28
They are keeping it, its in the article.
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ginny11 Apr 23, 2026 +66
I don't know. The way I read it was that they would always be her parents, but it doesn't sound like they know for sure if they'll always get to be her legal parents.
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Zealousideal-Bat708 Apr 23, 2026 +24
Totally agree. How I read it too.
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Sunset-onthe-Horizon Apr 23, 2026 +21
They said they were keeping it but they don't say how that went over with the biological parents.
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fatrice12340 Apr 23, 2026 +17
"it" she.
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EatAtGrizzlebees Apr 23, 2026 +15
"Them" works, too.
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fatrice12340 Apr 23, 2026 -1
yes, for sure.
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Competitive_Fee_5829 Apr 23, 2026 +608
I dont know if I could give up a baby I carried just because we dont have the same dna. I would still love them and they would still be my baby.
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flippingisfun Apr 23, 2026 +21
Absolutely insane thing to say, you posses a troubling worldview.
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InternetName4 Apr 23, 2026 +9
Yeah. The baby would probably be better off with its biological parents (and I can't imagine how horrible this situation is for them)and I hope that's how it ends up, but its a tough situation for everyone.
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