Shocking IVF Mix-Up: Family’s Heartbreaking Fight After Receiving Stranger’s Child Unfolds New Twists
Imagine bringing home your dream baby after months of fertility battles, only to find out—plot twist!—she’s not actually yours genetically. That’s exactly the heart-wrenching and eyebrow-raising saga Tiffany Score and Steven Mills are living through. After celebrating the birth of their daughter Shea, via IVF embryo transfer, these Florida parents quickly faced a mind-boggling clinic mix-up: their newborn is of a different ethnicity and not genetically related to them at all. Now, as lawsuits fly and genetic testing unfolds, Tiffany and Steven are on an emotional quest to reunite Shea with her biological family while grappling with their own deep love and commitment as parents. Talk about a real-life drama that begs the question—what does it really mean to be family?
A US couple who gave birth to a baby which isn’t biologically theirs have shared a new update on their situation.
Last year, Tiffany Score and Steven Mills underwent a successful embryo transfer after several rounds of IVF and welcomed a baby girl back in January.
However the new parents were very swiftly dealt a crushing blow when they realised the newborn wasn’t genetically their child.
Both Tiffany and Steven are white, while the baby is described as being non-white with genetic testing would later confirm that the infant was not related to the Florida couple.
Tiffany and Steven have since filed a lawsuit against the clinic IVF Life over the mix-up.
Now in a new update on the case, the parents are hoping to reunite the infant – who they’ve named Shea – with her biological family.
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills with their daughter Shea (GoFundMe)
Speaking to PEOPLE about the decision, attorney Jack Scarola explained that multiple families have come forward believing the little girl could be theirs.
“There are multiple families who believe that they might be genetically related to Shea,” Scarola explained.
He went on to explain that even though Tiffany and Steven have ‘bonded with their baby’ the couple feel ‘a moral obligation to find the genetic parents of Shea.
“We love our little girl, and if possible, we would hope to be able to continue to raise her ourselves with confidence that she won’t be taken away from us,” the couple said in a previous statement, adding: “At the same time we are aware that we have a moral obligation to find and notify her biological parents as it is in her best interest that her genetic parents are provided the option to raise her as their own.”
He added that one couple is currently waiting to receive their results after undergoing genetic testing while the clinic which implanted the embryo in Tiffany was been directed by a court to offer free genetic testing to all parents who underwent transfers in April 2025.
A second group of 20 patients who underwent egg collection in March 2020, around the same time as Tiffany did, will also undergo testing.
The couple underwent IVF treatment at The Fertility Center of Orlando which has stated it is ‘actively cooperating’ with the case (WESH2)
IVF Life, which operates as The Fertility Center of Orlando, previously stated that they were ‘actively cooperating with an investigation to support one of our patients in determining the source of an error that resulted in the birth of a child who is not genetically related to them.’
In the meantime the couple are also looking to track down the rest of the embryos made with the clinic, with Scarola confirming they made a total of three embryos, two female and one male.
“Their male embryo may still be out there. They are told there is one embryo in storage — it has not been confirmed yet if it’s really theirs,” he said.
In the meantime a relative of the couple has set up a GoFundMe to help Tiffany and Steven raise money to retrieve eggs which they had frozen at a separate clinic seven years ago.
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