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The Daily

An I.V.F. Mix-Up and an Impossible Choice

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For millions of families, in vitro fertilization is a modern medical miracle. But the field is largely unregulated, and for a small number of parents, things can go terribly wrong. Susan Dominus discusses her story about how two families navigated an unthinkable I.V.F. mistake that will connect them for the rest of their lives.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Michael. A little bit of news from us. From here on out, Natalie, Rachel, and I are going to be hosting new episodes of the Daily on Sundays. It's a chance to tell all kinds of stories that we have a harder time covering during the week. And we're genuinely really excited about this,

0:21.1

and we hope that you are too.

0:22.6

You can listen to the first of these this Sunday.

0:26.6

So tune in.

0:27.9

And now, here's today's show.

0:34.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

0:37.0

This is the Daily.

0:41.5

For millions of families, IVF is a modern medical miracle.

0:48.8

But for a small number of parents, the largely unregulated field, can go terribly wrong.

0:58.5

Today, Sue Domino's brings us the remarkable story of how two families navigated an unthinkable

1:07.2

mistake that will connect them for the rest of their lives.

1:15.9

It's Friday, January 16th.

1:21.1

Sue, welcome back.

1:31.7

Thank you so much.

1:33.3

So you're fast becoming the family correspondent here on the daily.

1:39.2

You have come on the show to talk about motherhood, menopause, siblings, how siblings shape one another's destiny.

1:48.6

I'm curious how you first discovered the story that we're going to be talking about in today's

1:55.6

edition of pseudominous family correspondent.

1:58.9

Yeah, I mean, for whatever reason, I am someone, maybe because I was the youngest of three,

2:04.2

and always was kind of the observer, I've always had this interest in how families work.

2:09.5

So both from my own childhood, but also as the mother of fraternal twins myself.

2:14.5

But there was one fundamental way that American families have changed over the past

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