A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient's embryo from her in vitro fertilisation 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.
