'This is such a preventable mistake,' Daphna Cardinale tells GMA. 'It should never have happened.'
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The couple said they also feared losing the baby they had carried through pregnancy, given birth to and raised for the first several months of her life. "Somehow they saw a picture of our older daughter and they saw this baby and they're like, 'They look really similar, so there's a good possibility that she's yours,'" recalled Daphna Cardinale."So everybody took DNA tests."
After several months of spending time alone with each baby, the Cardinales said they and the other couple, who declined to speak to ABC News, decided jointly to return each baby to their biological family.The Cardinale Family"With my birth daughter, I knew her, I carried her, I nursed her for her whole life," said Daphne Cardinale."But Zoey I didn't know. I didn't know what she felt like, what she smelled like.
The couple is suing the California Center for Reproductive Health and their doctor, Dr. Eliran Mor, whose lab the Cardinales claim in the lawsuit mixed up their embryo with the other couple's. The California Center for Reproductive Health and Mor did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.