OTTAWA - An Ottawa couple are warning anyone who used the services of the Broadview Fertility Clinic to take a good look at their child. Two separate claims were filed late last week against the clinic and its director Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin. The first suit involves a husband and wife couple who chose to use the wife's sister as a surrogate mother. According to public court documents, in the summer of 2006 Trudy Moore and Matthew Guest first contacted Barwin and treatment started in March 2007. Guest arrived at the clinic with a sperm sample, which had to be frozen because the surrogate was not yet ovulating. The next month he provided a second sample on site. The doctor is alleged to have left the room to prepare the sample and asked Guest to leave while the surrogate was inseminated. They came back the next day for another round of insemination, using presumably the sample provided by Guest earlier. The surrogate became pregnant two weeks later and gave birth to a baby girl Dec. 29, 2007. Two days later, nurses at Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus told the surrogate, the baby had RH positive blood, despite the fact both she and the father had RH negative blood. The couple adopted a "wait and see" approach until it became "increasingly clear" to them the baby possessed few, if any, of the father's biological traits. In October 2008 the couple finally underwent a DNA test which ruled Guest out as the father. The second lawsuit involves an Ottawa woman who opted to be inseminated from a sample of one of Barwin's registered donors - #3178, initially. Again, according to court documents, Jacqueline Slinn, began treatment in September 2003. The first failed so she purchased six vials of donor sperm from #3168 from Toronto-based fertility company Repromed - two of which were delivered to the Broadview clinic. Between March 29 and June 13, 2004, Slinn underwent several more inseminations by Barwin using stock he supplied and samples taken from two vials of Repromed's #3168. She became pregnant in June and gave birth to a girl on March 15, 2005. Nearly three years later Slinn joined a donor sibling registry and made contact with several other mothers who had been inseminated with #3168 and eventually decided to have her daughter tested and found that the child didn't share the same biological father as the other children in the registry. Both Slinn and the Guest-Moore couple are represented by the Ottawa law firm Nelligan O'Brien Payne. "We are currently investigating how widespread this problem may be," said lawyer Pam MacEachern. "We would be pleased to speak with anyone else who has had a similar experience." Slinn is seeking a total $1.25 million in damages. The couple are seeking $1.75 million -- and are speaking out. "Given the claims are so similar in nature, it is likely other mistakes were made." said Trudy Moore. There are 23 reviews of Barwin's services on the website ratemds.com - only three are negative. Barwin, who has been formally served, could not be reached for comment and did not return phone calls to his office or residence. The allegations contained in the court documents have not been proven. doug.hempstead@sunmedia.ca