A first-time mum had the wrong egg implanted at the IVF clinic.
The second Olga was told her newborn boy’s blood type was A – the first-time mum knew something was terribly wrong.
“My blood type is B, my husband has O. Our son cannot have such a blood type,” she said to the doctor after her son was born was nine weeks premature in November 2018,.
“The doctor assured me it was technically possible.”
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“I had the wrong egg implanted in an IVF mix-up”
Following her gut instinct, the 33-year-old did a quick online search.
“I googled her the scheme which shows that our blood types cannot lead to a child with A.”
Needless to say, the Russian mother was deeply distraught.
“My life turned upside down. I was in a deep state of shock and panic. I howled for the whole day – but could not tell the reason to anyone.”
“I had the wrong egg implanted at the IVF clinic.” Source: East2West/Australscope
“They told me to give my boy to the orphanage”
Olga’s worst nightmare was eventually realised after the doctors took new blood tests and a DNA test, with the results not available for an agonising three months.
“We got a call from the hospital, and went in… we were told neither of us were the biological parents of our son.”
The hospital went on to suggest the most inconceivable and appalling advice – that Olga and her husband leave the three-month-old baby at an orphanage.
Naturally, Olga was horrified by this recommendation from the medical professionals.
“What were they talking about? Denis is not a piece of dried bread in a bakery shop that I don’t want to take,” she said.
“I accepted my son. He is our child. Please try to understand me – he is our boy. My husband supported me 100 per cent.”
The couple were compensated to the equivalent of $AUD55,000 by the state-run Chelyabinsk Regional Perinatal Centre, where she underwent the procedure due to difficulty becoming pregnant with second husband Ivan.
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The hospital told the couple to leave their newborn at the orphanage. Source: East2West/Australscope
“The hospital never apologised for the IVF disaster”
However, the hospital did not apologise and refused for medical secrecy reasons to divulge the name of the other woman in Olga’s ward, or any other IVF mother who may have been wrongly implanted with her egg.
“The hospital never apologised – their representative behaved so arrogantly,” she vividly recalls.
“They looked at us as beggars who came to ask a favour. No regret, no sympathy.
“I was not able to calm down over this – my heart was all over the place.
“What if the other couple – who may be raising our biological child – was told to abandon the girl or boy to an orphanage?”
She suspects that she has met the biological mother of her son Denis, now two, who may be raising her biological child.
“The day I went in for the extraction of biomaterial, I met a woman in the same ward,” she said.
“We exchanged a few words but I just cannot remember her name. She said 10 eggs were picked up from her, the same as me.
“We met again at the ‘insemination’, sharing the same ward… I have not seen her since.
“I fear our biological material was swapped.”
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The mum wants to find her son’s biological parents but will never give her boy up. Source: East2West/Australscope
“I think there is no chance we will swap the kids back”
The traumatised mother said she had no choice but to make her story public in the hope that she can find Denis’ biological parents.
“If we find them – we would love to establish normal contacts,” she explains.
“We could potentially relocate to where they live – or they would relocate close to us.
However, the mum has no intention of giving up her beautiful little boy.
“I think there is no chance we will swap the kids back,” she admits.
“I would never give up Denis. I breastfed him. He is our long-awaited child – they have the right to know they have a son”.
“His biological parents could have Denis for holidays if they felt like it. I just want to establish a relationship with them.”
She truly feels that her son is a miracle.
“I will do anything for Denis – sometimes my husband gets offended with how I pamper my boy,” she says.
“But just imagine that I begged in church to have this child, to give birth to him.
“I carried him but I would open the doors of my house to his biological parents at any time.”
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