In January, Berger was implanted with two embryos at Ovation Fertility in Newport Beach.
“Knowing that there was no possibility, that they put me through that, is kind of horrifying,” she said.
“When it didn’t work, I had a lot of self-doubt,” Berger said. “Kind of wondered, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’ Even though our doctors said that they don’t think there’s anything wrong with me. I went through a lot of painful injections. This is a lot of time and effort, and then to find out that that was all for nothing was just devastating.”
Berger and Hardy are one of
nine couples suing the fertility clinic
.
“We don’t want this to happen again,” Hardy said. “To have this happen is unacceptable.”
The lawsuit states Ovation Fertility committed a catastrophic error in late January in their lab exposing embryos to hydrogen peroxide and killing them.
Benjamin Ikuta is one of the attorneys representing the families in the latest lawsuit.
“That was used instead of distilled water, and that was deadly for every single embryo that was implanted between January 18 and January 30,” said Ikuta. “They had a zero percent success rate for dozens and dozens of couples.”