Accidentally giving birth to another couple’s baby is a nightmare sounds like something out of a Hollywood drama. But for these couples, it’s their reality.
The California Center for Reproductive Health mistakenly implanted Daphna and husband Alexander’s embryos into Annie’s uterus—and vice versa. Despite settling their lawsuit against the fertility clinic in 2022, their story continues to make headlines.
In fact, nearly five years after Daphna and Annie—who welcomed May and Zoë in September 2019, respectively—swapped their daughters at 4 months old, they shared an update on their unimaginably complicated dynamic.
“We blended the two families,” Alexander revealed in the comment section of a New York Times Magazine Instagram post Nov. 26. “The girls are like sisters.”
In a separate joint Instagram post, he and Daphna reflected on their journey.
“This is the story of our families coming together… choosing love over fear,” they wrote. “It was difficult in the beginning but blending our families was really the only choice.”
