‘It Was Truly My Hell': Couple Files Lawsuit After IVF Mishap

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A Los Angeles couple is suing the California Center for Reproductive Health for in vitro fertilization after they learned the baby they had birthed and raised was not theirs.

“Instead of breastfeeding my own child, I breastfed and bonded with a child that I was later forced to give away,” said mother Daphna Cardinale. “I have so many mixed emotions of carrying my birth daughter inside my body. Every time I felt a kick or spoke to her, it was someone else’s baby.”

Cardinale and her husband, Alexander, were one of the two couples who did IVF through the Encino-based, California Center for Reproductive Health. Each mother carried to term and raised what they presumed to be their genetically related babies for four months until they learned they were in fact the wrong infants. The couple filed a lawsuit against their fertility doctor Eliran Mor, his clinic, lab and the surgical center where the IVF procedure took place in 2019.

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