Regardless, Murray resolved to raise the child. But after reporting the mix-up to the fertility clinic, she says, its staff tracked down and notified the baby’s biological parents. They demanded custody, Murray said, and she gave up the 5-month-old boy to avoid a legal fight she couldn’t win.

Krystena Murray says the error left her “emotionally broken” after she raised a boy for months before giving him up to his biological parents.

A woman was forced to give up custody of a 5-month old baby after a fertility clinic accidentally implanted another couple's embryo. Krystena Murray was implanted with a fertilized embryo using a donor's sperm at Coastal Fertility Specialists in Georgia.