Carolyn and Sean Savage

An Ohio woman who was implanted with the wrong embryo says she hopes to visit soon with the baby boy she delivered and turned over to his biological parents. Carolyn Savage of the Toledo suburb of Sylvania told NBC's "Today" show Wednesday that she has been waiting for her family to finish a run of colds. She says she hopes that in a couple weeks she'll be able to see the child for the first time since the hospital. On Sept. 24, Savage gave birth to the 5 pound, 3 ounce biological son of Paul and Shannon Morell of the Detroit suburb of Troy, ... Read Full Story

Carolyn Savage didn't know what to think, what to say, where to look as the ultrasound wand glided over her belly. It was supposed to be her baby inside. Not someone else's. Yet here she was in her doctor's office with the baby's biological mother, both brought together by a terrible error at a fertility clinic. A doctor, they said, had given Savage the wrong embryo, and now she was carrying the other woman's child. "The wand is on my abdomen and the technician's talking to someone else: 'There's your baby's nose. There's your baby's head,'" she said. "It was surreal." Embryo mix-ups at ... Read Full Story

An Ohio woman who was implanted with the wrong embryo has given birth to a "healthy baby boy" and given him up to his biological parents, her family said in a statement. Carolyn Savage, 40, and her husband Sean offered their "heartfelt congratulations" to Paul and Shannon Morell -- the boy's biological parents, according to the statement released late Friday. The child was delivered at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday. "We wish Paul, Shannon, their twin girls and their new baby boy the best, as they move forward with their lives together," the Savage family statement said. They also ... Read Full Story

Carolyn Savage isn't feeling uneasy about delivering her fourth baby for the reasons most moms get anxious over giving birth. It's not about the pain, physically, at least. Instead, Carolyn and Sean Savage will be forced to give up their baby because she was implanted with the wrong embryo by her fertility clinic. The baby will go to its biological parents. The Savage family. (msnbc.com) Carolyn and Sean were thrilled when they found out she was pregnant with her fourth child after a decade of fertility problems. They shortly found out that the baby was not their own, and had to choose between terminating ... Read Full Story

Detroit marathon deaths DETROIT — A half-marathoner and two other runners died during the Detroit marathon on Sunday, organizers said. Daniel Langdon, 36, of Laingsburg, collapsed at about 9:02 a.m. between the 11- and 12-mile markers, said Rich Harshbarger, vice president of consumer marketing for the Detroit Media Partnership. Rick Brown, 65, of Marietta, Ohio, collapsed at 9:17 a.m., near where Langdon went down, and 26-year-old Jon Fenlon of Waterford collapsed at about 9:18 a.m., just after finishing the half-marathon in 1:53:37, Harshbarger said. It was unclear whether Brown and Langdon were participating in the 13.1-mile half marathon or the full race. Harshbarger told ... Read Full Story