‘What Happened?’: White Georgia Mother Finds Out Son Isn’t Hers Five Months After Giving Birth to Black Baby Through IVF, Sues Clinic Over ‘Irreparable Damage to My Soul’

Krystena Murray has spent most of her life dreaming of motherhood, and in 2023, the now-38-year-old went through the arduous and sometimes painful process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) to get pregnant.  But when her baby was born, Murray, a single woman who is white, was shocked to see that her new child was a dark-skinned Black boy. The sperm donor she had chosen had similar features to her — a white man with dirty blond hair and blue eyes. “My first thought was he’s beautiful,” Murray, a wedding planner who lives in Savannah, said in an online press conference on Tuesday. “My second thought was, ‘What happened? Did they mess up the embryo? Can someone take my son?’ That was all within the course of the first 10 or 15 seconds of me seeing him.” Krystena Murray is suing Coastal Fertility Specialists for a IVF mistake. (Photos: Courtesy of Kane Conway & Wise, LLP) “What was supposed to be the happiest moment of my life — and honestly, it was — was also the scariest moment of my life,” she said. “While my child was born healthy and he remains the most beautiful human I will ever lay eyes...