A new category for my blog. Strange IVF News.

Here is the first one from Australia:

IVF accident

Updated: 23:24, Friday October 12, 2007

A Victorian woman has launched legal action against a Melbourne IVF clinic, after her embryos were dropped on the floor, killing most of them. The 45 year old’s frozen embryos were being thawed, when a lab worker at the Monash Clinic accidentally knocked them off a bench onto the floor. The seven embryos that died could not be found as they were too small, while the surviving two embryos were recovered and implanted, but never developed. When the accident happened, all the embryos had been fertilised by the woman’s partner, and had been allowed to develop for three days, before being frozen for 18 months. The woman claims she feels as though her children have been killed. She has two teenage children from a previous relationship. The woman is now considered too old for IVF treatment in Australia.

News article here.