(Sept. 21) -- In a few short weeks, Carolyn Savage will give birth after going through in vitro fertilization. But she and her husband will be forced to say hello and goodbye in just a few moments before they give the baby up -- because the baby she's carrying belongs to someone else.
Savage was implanted with another couple's embryos at an Ohio fertility clinic in February.
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"They delivered the worst news of our life," her husband, Sean Savage, told Meredith Vieira on NBC's 'Today' show Monday. He received the call from the clinic that his wife was pregnant, but with another couple's child.
They were told they could either terminate the pregnancy, which wasn't something they wanted to do because of their religious beliefs, or carry the fetus to term and then give him to his biological parents.
"The hardest part is going to be the delivery," said Carolyn, 40. She said she told the biological parents, who they have met, that she and her husband "want a moment to say hello, and goodbye."
Carolyn, who has had difficulty conceiving and carrying children to term, has been told by doctors she won't be able to have another pregnancy. The Savages have three children, one of whom was conceived through IVF, and had gone through this round in the hopes that one of the five embryos they had frozen would take.
Now, they are planning to use a surrogate to try to conceive using those embryos.
"It's been hard," Carolyn told Vieira. "We've been rooting for the baby the whole time. We moved from a position of shock to a realization that this was actually going to happen. We needed to put the needs of the pregnancy and the child first. It's just been difficult, but we feel we made the right decisions on how to handle it."
To read more about the Savages' story, go to the Today show's Web site.
