DNA..Horror

Was reading about this in todays paper and the couples are going to get their own children back. Apparently they are getting to know the children and hope to be back together before Christmas.
 
I read an article about them too. One mother said she wished she could keep both children. They do realise it's going to take a lot of adjustment. I feel so sorry for them. :(
 
Yes so do I but I think I would have asked a few more questions at the hospital. There were some discrepencies with the babies weights which should have been picked up on IMO.
 
It is too easy for the nurses to get it wrong. When I was in Bramley Meade in 1965 the babies were only with you at feedtimes, and they once delivered me the wrong baby for feeding. I must admit that the baby DID resemble mine and my suspicions were aroused only because he seemed to have gained a lot of weight since the last feed. A check of the wristband averted disaster - thank goodness it had not become detatched.
 
That was one of the things they brought up, how the babies weight had changed so dramatically. The staff told them it had been recorded wrong at birth.
 
Maybe they should not cut the cord until mother and child are on the way out of the hospital.
 
There was this film on tele a few years ago ,,a real tearjerker.starring Milissa Gilbert ,,(Laura Ingals in Little house on the prairie),,The two mothers ended up with both of them bringing up both children,,because they had each bonded with the wrong child, and wanted and loved the natural child too,,,
 
The parents would have to get on really well with each other though and agree on how the children are brought up for that to work wouldn't they? They might have totally different ideas on child rearing.
 
It must be a very difficult time for them all, at least its going to be gradual and the babies are going to get used to the other set of parents before the swap, I suppose its better now than in a few years time. Hard to imagine what they're going through, thank goodness they dont take your babies away these days.
 
The last I read about this was that neither parents will give up the baby they have reared but will live as closely as possible with the other family. Blood is important but love and bonding are what really count.
 
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