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Five years after two couples discovered they were raising the other’s children as the result of a mishap at an IVF clinic in California, their lives have become one.
“There’s no person to give you advice. So we ended up just sort of huddling together, the four of us, and it’s a blessing that we all are on the same page,” Alexander Cardinale told the Daily Mail about the uniqueness of the couples’ situation.
“We’ve spent every holiday together since then. We’ve spent every birthday together since then — and we’ve just kind of blended the families.”
In 2019, Daphna and Alexander Cardinale ordered a DNA test to confirm what they were already quietly suspecting: that their months-old daughter May wasn’t theirs. The DNA test confirmed their suspicions; the Los Angeles couple was raising someone else’s baby.
The couple knew what they had to do: call the clinic. “It felt like a kidnapping,” Daphna told the New York Times. Unclear about what happened to their own embryos, the couple made the excruciating call, even though it could have meant losing May. Weeks later, the couple heard astonishing news: May’s biological parents lived just 10 minutes away — and they also were raising the Cardinales’ biological daughter, Zoe.
Dealt with an unbearable question — whether to keep the children or swap them — the parents agreed to switch the girls.
The transition period wasn’t easy. On top of dealing with an unimaginably complex set of emotions of their own, the parents also had to break the news to their older children, who had grown close to the baby girls.
The couple formalized the swap in court and plotted out how they could keep the families close.……
www.independent.co.uk
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Five years after two couples discovered they were raising the other’s children as the result of a mishap at an IVF clinic in California, their lives have become one.
“There’s no person to give you advice. So we ended up just sort of huddling together, the four of us, and it’s a blessing that we all are on the same page,” Alexander Cardinale told the Daily Mail about the uniqueness of the couples’ situation.
“We’ve spent every holiday together since then. We’ve spent every birthday together since then — and we’ve just kind of blended the families.”
In 2019, Daphna and Alexander Cardinale ordered a DNA test to confirm what they were already quietly suspecting: that their months-old daughter May wasn’t theirs. The DNA test confirmed their suspicions; the Los Angeles couple was raising someone else’s baby.
The couple knew what they had to do: call the clinic. “It felt like a kidnapping,” Daphna told the New York Times. Unclear about what happened to their own embryos, the couple made the excruciating call, even though it could have meant losing May. Weeks later, the couple heard astonishing news: May’s biological parents lived just 10 minutes away — and they also were raising the Cardinales’ biological daughter, Zoe.
Dealt with an unbearable question — whether to keep the children or swap them — the parents agreed to switch the girls.
The transition period wasn’t easy. On top of dealing with an unimaginably complex set of emotions of their own, the parents also had to break the news to their older children, who had grown close to the baby girls.
The couple formalized the swap in court and plotted out how they could keep the families close.……
Two California couples raised each other’s kids after IVF mix-up - then swapped back
The girls are now five years old and the families have turned their once-nightmarish situation into a blended family
www.independent.co.uk
