I'm guessing sometimes the nurses are too busy making tiktoks and these mistakes happen, this guy on reddit thought his wife was cheating after reading some incel guff online, took a paternity test and found out his daughter wasn't his... but surprisingly also later discovered wasn't his wife's either:
Does make you wonder how common this is, apparently not so much in the UK:
Though the near misses aren't exactly confidence inspiring either:
But apparently in backwards countries like South Africa, Spain and 'merica it does happen occasionally:
Spain: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/family-kids/woman-discovers-switched-birth-20-24955195
South Africa: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-swapped-birth-resents-mother-25995413
The latter case was a bit
as they did discover the mistake when the kids were only 2 years od but... rather surprisingly, decided not to swap them back, though kept in contact. Unfortunately one of the kids was then stuck with a poor single mother and rather resentful of the fact his actual mother was quite well off (of course the single mum's actual kid, who'd grown up with rich parents, was quite happy with how his life had turned out). In the end, the rich mother decided to encourage her actual kid to move in with her too leaving the former single mum with no kid:
I don't really get their approach, surely, upon finding a mistake like that you'd want your actual kid back? If you'd had the wrong kid for a while then you'd kinda want to maintain contact with them too I presume but surely you'd not abandon your actual offspring?
Anyway what would you want to do GD - say you have a kid, the nurse rushes off with it to clean it up and because too busy and/or incompetent/dumb manages to stick the wrong bracelet on it and another baby... you later discover the error...
Would it change your view/approach if it were discovered at 2 years vs 5 years vs some later point like 10 years?
Does make you wonder how common this is, apparently not so much in the UK:
Though the near misses aren't exactly confidence inspiring either:
NHS said:
But apparently in backwards countries like South Africa, Spain and 'merica it does happen occasionally:
Spain: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/family-kids/woman-discovers-switched-birth-20-24955195
South Africa: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-swapped-birth-resents-mother-25995413
The latter case was a bit
as they did discover the mistake when the kids were only 2 years od but... rather surprisingly, decided not to swap them back, though kept in contact. Unfortunately one of the kids was then stuck with a poor single mother and rather resentful of the fact his actual mother was quite well off (of course the single mum's actual kid, who'd grown up with rich parents, was quite happy with how his life had turned out). In the end, the rich mother decided to encourage her actual kid to move in with her too leaving the former single mum with no kid:I don't really get their approach, surely, upon finding a mistake like that you'd want your actual kid back? If you'd had the wrong kid for a while then you'd kinda want to maintain contact with them too I presume but surely you'd not abandon your actual offspring?
Anyway what would you want to do GD - say you have a kid, the nurse rushes off with it to clean it up and because too busy and/or incompetent/dumb manages to stick the wrong bracelet on it and another baby... you later discover the error...
Would it change your view/approach if it were discovered at 2 years vs 5 years vs some later point like 10 years?
