When the couple’s two youngest children experienced severe health issues and they learnt they were unrelated to their oldest child, they accused a large IVF clinic of using the “wrong sperm.”
Between 2006 and 2014, Anastasia and Lexie Gunn used donor sperm at the Queensland Fertility Group (QFG) to create three sons.
After hundreds of hours of arduous study, the couple learnt that their eldest was not connected to his two younger brothers, despite having paid for the same donor’s sperm to be used for all three children.
“It’s a catastrophic error… how could they have used the wrong sperm to make children?” Anastasia said.
“We had IVF and got the wrong sperm,” Lexie added.
“It’s shattered what we all believe to be true.”
The disclosures are part of a comprehensive examination into Australia’s wildly lucrative IVF sector conducted by ABC’s Four Corners.
Anastasia informed the program that they had carefully considered their options before selecting Donor 227, a Caucasian man in his 25s to 30s who was described as fit and healthy.
“Medical background was definitely of concern to me,” she stated.
They decided to have more children four years after the birth of their first son, so they got in touch with QFG to see if they could utilise the same donor.
“We wanted them all to have the same biological father to tie them together so that then when they have children, their children are all tied together with biological history,” Anastasia stated.
They ended up producing two more boys when the doctor advised them that they could use the same donor.
However, both boys experienced severe health complications from birth.
The youngest was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, and the others were diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which results in extremely flexible joints and delicate skin.
The couple uploaded their sons’ DNA to an ancestry website because they were worried about the quantity of health issues and wanted to see whether any other offspring of donor 227 had the same issues.
However, they were taken aback by the findings when they learnt that their oldest child had no biological relation with their youngest two.
Anastasia stated, “I was completely perplexed,”
“I could see that there was no match between our eldest boy and our younger two.”
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