A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in vitro fertilization clinic due to “human error,” the clinic said.
The mix-up was discovered in February when the clinic in the city of Brisbane found that the birth parents had one too many embryos in storage, said the provider, Monash IVF, in a statement supplied Friday.
Staff discovered an embryo from another patient had been mistakenly thawed and transferred to the birth mother, a spokesperson said.
The Monash IVF clinic in Brisbane, Australia on April 11, 2025. AP
Australia news outlets reported the baby was born in 2024. Monash IVF didn’t confirm how old the child was.
The company, one of Australia’s biggest IVF providers, said an
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