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Monday, September 21, 2009
Ohio woman pregnant with wrong child
Talk about a nightmare situation.
An Ohio couple is preparing to deliver another couple’s child, they said Monday, Sept. 21, in an interview with TODAY’s Meredith Vieira.
The wrong embryos were accidentally implanted in Carolyn Savage through in vitro fertilization.
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The 40-year-old Sylvania resident and her husband, Sean, had two choices: terminate the pregnancy or carry the fetus full-term and then turn the child over to his biological parents.
Due to their religious beliefs, the parents of three decided to carry the baby.
Carolyn Savage is now 35 weeks pregnant and could have the baby as early as next week.
“We want a moment to say hello and goodbye,” Savage said in the Today Show interview. “That will be hard.”
Savage, who has had trouble conceiving, can not get pregnant again due to medical issues.
She and her husband will work with a surrogate mother.
“We felt strongly that we needed to give every embryo that we created a chance at life,” Savage said.
The Savages said the child’s biological parents will decide if he knows anything about what happened.
“We know that they did not ask for this,” Carolyn Savage said. ” We are not going to impress ourselves into their lives. Of course we will wonder about this child every day for the rest of our lives and we have hopes for him, but they are his parents.”
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