Posted on 03/27/2022 10:06:50 PM PDT by Trillian
Heather Wilhelm-Routenberg said she would only have kids with her wife Robin (Robbie) Routenberg-Wilhelm if they could have girls — because Heather was still traumatized from being sexually assaulted on two different occasions after college. Heather and Robbie say that CNY fertility clinic in Latham, NY, assured the Buffalo couple it would not be a problem: The lab could determine the sex of any embryo, created using an egg from Robbie and donor sperm, before it was transferred into Heather.
But when Heather was 15 weeks pregnant — having been assured by the clinic that the embryo was female, she says — they found out she was carrying a boy. The news sent her into a dark depression. After their son’s birth in December 2020, Heather became suicidal and wasn’t able to bond with the baby. Now, with the help of Eric Wrubel of Warshaw Burstein, LLP, Heather and Robbie are suing CNY on 11 counts including breach of contract, medical malpractice and battery. Here, Heather tells AMY KLEIN how much she loves her son and what it’s like to have a pregnancy and new motherhood that traumatizes you.
I was always afraid of hospitals and have a lot of physical pain during medical procedures on my reproductive region, so we thought we would start reciprocal IVF with Robbie carrying my daughter. She got pregnant, but at 8-10 weeks we found out the baby wasn’t growing.
Seeing the look of devastation on Robbie’s face after the miscarriage made me feel so helpless. I said, “We have to do it!” And we started my IVF cycle that day to carry her baby. I got pregnant on the first try and I was very excited. I felt like a badass, like I was doing something for my family.
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Queue Nelson: “Ha Ha”
Feel free to have it deleted. I did a search before I posted.
It deserves to be re-posted
It’s hard to believe she ‘loves her son’ when just a few weeks ago, (in a different article) she said carrying a male child in her body was like being raped.
This ‘Lady’ should not have qualifed to be anybody’s Mom.
She’s very unbalanced and self centered.
How would they know it’s not a girl? Are they biologists?
These lesbians are incredibly bigoted and hateful.
The baby could be a trans girl but isn’t old enough to speak and say so.
They clearly don’t know how to define what a woman is!
They certainly are NOT biologists! They’re transphobes.
Conveniently omitting the very obvious fact that, if the sex of the embryo is determined to be male, it is then summarily destroyed. That's how this process works.
Regards,
As I mentioned in the other thread: I’ll raise the kid if they pay me child support.
too many issues still to resolve to even think about being a parent if one cannot separate feelings for a newborn child of any sex with adult-level trauma of the past.
just wondering how these same mommies think/act like when girl child grows up hetero and shows up with a boyfriend?
At this point “ what difference does it make” until it decides, it’s anything it wants to be. True I’m channeling The broom riding bitch Hillary. Remember folks, it doesn’t grow back like hair or fingernails. Just sayin.
Men don’t have husbands and women don’t have wives.
Mentally ill.
*wins the ironic internet
Perhaps the embryo was a male who self identified as a female,
Mental patients...
Oddly enough, the fear was always that parents would prefer male children. India has laws preventing the abortion of females after doctors share the gender of the baby in the womb.
Couple who asked for female embryo sues fertility clinic over couple's failure to play God.
Eenie, meenie, minee, moe...which egg will I plant in the ho?
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