TOLEDO, Ohio — Carolyn Savage and Shannon Morell were brought together by a terrible error. A fertility clinic had given Savage the wrong embryo, and now she was carrying Morell’s child.
Savage and her husband decided that the right thing — the only thing — to do was to give the baby to the biological parents.
“This was someone else’s child,” she said Wednesday. “We didn’t know who it was. We didn’t know if they didn’t have children or if this was their last chance for a child.
“We knew if our child was out there, we’d go to the ends of the earth to get our child back.”
Savage, 40, is due to give birth to a boy within the next two weeks. Paul and Shannon Morell, of Michigan, will be nearby, waiting to meet their son. They have twin girls at home.
“How do you thank somebody for what they’ve done?” Shannon Morell said. “I could say thank you a million different ways.”
The Savages say the fertility clinic transferred the wrong frozen embryo to Carolyn’s womb in early February. Ten days later, Sean Savage got a call from a doctor saying his wife was pregnant with someone else’s child.
Carolyn Savage won’t have another chance to carry her own baby because of her age and difficulties during her earlier pregnancies.
She and her husband plan to hire a surrogate.
