When infant-tech goes wrong:

A woman in Australia has unknowingly given birth to a stranger’s baby, after her fertility clinic accidentally implanted another woman’s embryos into her.

Oops! Was her fertility clinic drunk at the time or what?

The mix-up at Monash IVF in Brisbane, Queensland has been blamed on human error, Australian media reports. “On behalf of Monash IVF, I want to say how truly sorry I am for what has happened,” CEO Michael Knaap said, adding that everyone at the fertility clinic was “devastated” at the mistake.

Last year, the same clinic paid a A$56m (£26.8m) settlement to hundreds of patients whose embryos were destroyed despite them being viable.

So you can see why they were devastated – that’s some expensive blundering right there.

According to a spokesperson for Monash IVF, staff became aware of the problem in February when the birth parents asked to transfer their remaining frozen embryos to another clinic. “Instead of finding the expected number of embryos, an additional embryo remained in storage,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying by ABC.

Monash has confirmed that an embryo from another patient had been mistakenly thawed and transferred to the wrong person, resulting in the birth of a child.

To lose one embryo, Monash IVF, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose hundreds looks like carelessness.