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A relative told the couple that a young man had told him: “Hey, I’m in your family tree. I don’t know if you know someone in your family who has donated embryos or simply given away some children.”
Couple finds out they have triplets 20 years after donating embryos
A couple from the state of Texas (USA) discovered that they are parents of triplets, 20 years after donating frozen embryos.
Brooke and Chris Martin, in an interview with Fox News, reported that when they were just over 20 years old faced fertility problems and resorted to in vitro fertilization to have a son. Thanks to that, some time later they had twins.
However, they still had eight frozen embryos and had to decide what to do with them: use them, let them thaw, donate them to science or return them to the fertility clinic. Finally, they opted for the last alternative because they believed it was the right thing to do.
20 years later, a relative informed them that a young man had contacted him and said, “Hey, I’m on your family tree. I don’t know if you know anyone in your family who has donated embryos or simply given away some children”.
The couple immediately looked for the boy, named Thomas, on social networks. “I saw the picture of him and my husband and I burst into tears and said that was our son. There is no question, he looked just like our sons,” Brooke said. However, at that time they discovered that the boy was a triplet, which meant that they had three biological children whom they did not know.
The triplets, two boys and a girl from 18 years old, grew up with their adoptive parents, who told them about embryo adoption.
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