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发帖数: 16686 | 1 前两天MSNBC today采访了这对夫妇，当时就注意了这个弄错了孩子的故事本身，今天
搜了一下，这老美太牛了，太佩服了，这么危险，非要生5个孩子啊，第二个孩子30周
出生，接下来三次流产，花了十年怀了第三个孩子，最后第三个孩子32周出生，貌似都
是蛮严重有生病危险的妊娠medical complication
啊，还敢生，第四个结果人工种错了，怀了别人的孩子，生了，还回去了，真是不服不
行啊
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32950836/ns/today-today_health/
It is supposed to the happiest news a couple can get, especially a couple
who have difficulty conceiving and carrying babies. The in vitro
fertilization procedure had been a success: Carolyn Savage was pregnant.
And then came the horrible news: It wasn’t her baby. The fertility clinic
they had used had made an all but inconceivable mistake and had implanted
another couple’s embryos into Carolyn.
“They delivered the worst news of our life,” Sean Savage told TODAY’s
Meredith Vieira Monday from the family’s Sylvania, Ohio, home.
The Savages were presented with two devastating choices: They could either
terminate the pregnancy, something that clashed with their religious beliefs
, or they could carry the fetus to term and then hand him over to his
biological parents.
That moment is rapidly approaching. Carolyn is 35 weeks pregnant and within
the next two weeks will deliver the baby with his genetic parents attending
the birth. At that time, the Savages will give up the infant, perhaps never
to see or hold him again.
They are telling their story in the hopes that no other couple ever has to
go through what they have endured.
“The hardest part is going to be the delivery,” Carolyn said. “I remember
communicating with the mother of this child as to what I was envisioning
and hoping for. I said, ‘We want a moment to say hello, and goodbye.’ ”
“It’ll be exceptionally difficult,” Sean admitted, even with the eight
months they’ve had to prepare and the help they’ve received from mental
health counseling. “But at the same time, we’ve been preparing this for
months.”
Her last pregnancy
The couple waited 14 weeks into the pregnancy to have their lawyer contact
the biological parents of the child. The initial contacts were done
anonymously through attorneys. But they eventually met face to face and have
had a relationship that the Savages characterized as cordial.
The Savages have three other children, and Carolyn, 40, has experienced
multiple difficulties in becoming pregnant and carrying children to term.
She had been told that this must be her final pregnancy, and the couple had
planned to have the five embryos they had frozen implanted in the hopes that
one would take.
Because of their beliefs, they feel they cannot destroy those embryos.
“We felt strongly that we needed to give every embryo that we created a
chance at life,” Carolyn said.
So, when they complete this pregnancy, they intend to have a surrogate carry
their remaining child or children to term. They have signed a contract with
a surrogate and their attorneys are working out the complicated details.
TODAY
The couple struggled for 10 years to have a third child. After she was born
they decided to implant the embryos left over from the IVF procedure so that
they could have a chance at life.
In a statement to TODAY, the Savages’ attorneys said they are working to
ensure that the fertility clinic that made the mistake “will accept full
responsibility for the consequences of their misconduct.”
The Savages had met in 1989 when both were students at the University of
Miami in Ohio. Four years later, they were married and almost immediately
set out to have the large family they dreamed of.
Their first son, Drew, was born in September 1994 after a normal pregnancy.
But after Drew’s birth, the couple began having reproductive problems.
Their second son, Ryan, was born after 30 weeks of gestation in April 1997.
The early delivery was necessitated when Carolyn was diagnosed with HELLP
syndrome, a life-threatening complication related to pre-eclampsia. The
syndrome’s symptoms include anemia, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet
count along with elevated blood pressure.
Although Drew spent four weeks in neonatal intensive care, he is now a
healthy 12-year-old.
10 years of trying
The Savages were told that it was safe for Carolyn to get pregnant again,
and for the next 10 years they tried to conceive their third child. They
resorted to ovulation stimulation, but all they had to show for it were two
early miscarriages.
Finally, the couple opted to try in vitro fertilization through a fertility
clinic. The first attempt resulted in another miscarriage. At that time,
Carolyn was diagnosed with two blood-clotting disorders that may have
contributed to her other difficulties.
Undeterred, the couple finally succeeded in conceiving a daughter though in
vitro fertilization in 2007. After 32 weeks of gestation, a return of
Carolyn’s HELLP syndrome necessitated an early delivery in March 2008 via
Caesarean section. Like her older brother Drew, Mary Kate spent four weeks
in intensive care and is now a healthy child. Video: What do you do with
frozen embryos?
This past February, in the belief that they were using the last of their
frozen embryos, Carolyn went back to the fertility clinic. On Feb. 16, a
blood test confirmed that one of the embryos was viable and Carolyn was
pregnant.
‘I have bad news’
Sean remembers being told in a phone call at work. Stunned, he went home to
tell Carolyn.
“I was upstairs in my bedroom and he came to the door and said, ‘I have
really bad news,’ ” she recalled. Then came the news: “You’re pregnant,
but they transferred the wrong embryo.”
Carolyn remembers saying, “You’re joking, you’re joking, you’re joking.
” But when she looked at her husband, she knew it was true. “He was white
as a sheet,” Carolyn said.
The pregnancy has been without complication, but it’s been anything but
easy.
“It’s been hard,” Carolyn told Vieira. “We’ve been rooting for the baby
the whole time. We moved from a position of shock to a realization that
this was actually going to happen. We needed to put the needs of the
pregnancy and the child first. It’s just been difficult, but we feel we
made the right decisions on how to handle it.”
The Savages said the other couple has expressed their gratitude at the
Savages’ decision not to terminate the pregnancy. The Savages told the
couple they understand how difficult it is for everyone.
“What we expressed to them is that we know they did not ask for this. They
were at home with their family minding their own business. We are not going
to impress ourselves into their lives,” Carolyn told Vieira. “Of course,
we will wonder about this child every day for the rest of our lives. We have
hopes for him, but they’re his parents, and we’ll defer to their judgment
on when and if they ever tell him what happened and any contact that’s
afforded us. We just want to know he’s healthy and happy.” | m**a
发帖数: 1840 | 2 嗯, 听无私的.
别人的embryo没有complication吗? | az
发帖数: 16686 | 3 似乎啊
【在 m**a 的大作中提到】
: 嗯, 听无私的.
: 别人的embryo没有complication吗?
| z*****9
发帖数: 256 | 4 其实在孕期就发现胚胎弄错了已经很幸运了,如果对孩子日夜呵护了若干年以后才发现,
那时的感情才是最难了断的.
【在 az 的大作中提到】
: 前两天MSNBC today采访了这对夫妇，当时就注意了这个弄错了孩子的故事本身，今天
: 搜了一下，这老美太牛了，太佩服了，这么危险，非要生5个孩子啊，第二个孩子30周
: 出生，接下来三次流产，花了十年怀了第三个孩子，最后第三个孩子32周出生，貌似都
: 是蛮严重有生病危险的妊娠medical complication
: 啊，还敢生，第四个结果人工种错了，怀了别人的孩子，生了，还回去了，真是不服不
: 行啊
: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32950836/ns/today-today_health/
: It is supposed to the happiest news a couple can get, especially a couple
: who have difficulty conceiving and carrying babies. The in vitro
: fertilization procedure had been a success: Carolyn Savage was pregnant.
| z**x
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