A mom from Russia was implanted with the fertile egg of another patient and gave birth to the wrong child.
Olga Alyokhina, 33, from Chelyabinsk in Russia, is desperately trying to find out if her own baby was born to another woman and claims she doesn’t even know where her real baby is.
She just found this out after Denis, 2, was born and they said that she was not his biological mother. She suspects that the biological parents of her son may be raising her child. She said that she would never give up Denis, but thinks his real parents should also need and have a right to know about their son’s existence.
Now she wants to find out if her own baby was born to another woman. She just comes forward with her story in an attempt to find a woman she met at an IVF clinic who she believes may have been mistakenly given her fertilized egg.
Olga has been paid £29,500 compensation by the state-run Chelyabinsk Regional Perinatal Centre where she underwent the procedure. She’d chosen to undergo IVF due to difficulty becoming pregnant with second husband Ivan Alyokhin. She said they were yet to receive an apology.
Olga says she met a woman in the same ward, whose name she has not been able to recall, she said: “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.”
When Olga gave birth to Denis in November 2018, who was nine weeks premature, she was surprised to learn that her son’s blood type was A, while her blood type is B and her husband was O.
The doctor of the said Hospital had assured her it was “technically possible”, later she began to make her own research to find out the combination was not viable if Denis was their biological child.
She said: “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.”
They went back to the hospital the day after and let the doctor take a new blood test and a DNA test. Three months later, they were called to the hospital knowing that neither one of them was Denis’ biological parents.
The hospital suggested that they should leave the boy in the orphanage. She said the idea of leaving Denis upsets her and made her furious at the same time. She pledged to accept him and raise him as her child.
Olga said: “Denis is not a piece of dried bread in a bakery shop that I don’t want to take. I accepted my son. He is our child.”
Citing private reasons, hospital staff also refused 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.
She said that the hospital could have quietly checked it out, but their refusal to do so meant she has to ask for help through the media.
Olga, who also has a seven-year-old daughter, said she would love to foster a relationship with the other family if they were successful in tracking them down.
While they would consider relocating to be near them in order to become part of their child’s life, she said there was “no chance” they would swap Denis just to get their biological child back. She says they already love Denis and no one can change that.
She said: “I would never give up Denis. I breastfed him. He is our long-awaited child.”